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He was initially sentenced to death but this was commuted to a 29-year term. While he was in jail, his wife remarried and several of his children were adopted. He has now been given $96,000 (£67,000) compensation for spending 10 years in jail. Two policemen accused of beating him have been arrested. His brother said police had forced him to drink chilli-tainted water and set off fireworks above his head in order to make him confess.

Duncan L. Niederauer, chief executive of NYSE Euronext, blaming Nasdaq’s computers for continuing trading while the market was in free fall. “These computers go out and just find the next bid they can find,” he said. Mr. Niederauer acknowledged the need to introduce circuit-breakers along the lines of those already in place on the Big Board, and his views were echoed by some chief executives of the new exchanges.