THE son of Colonel Muammar Gadaffi was sentenced to death along with eight former government officials yesterday in a “show trial” in Tripoli.

Seif al-Islam Gadaffi was convicted in absentia of incitement to murder and rape during the 2011 Nato war on Libya to overthrow the state brought to power by his father in 1969.

Col Gadaffi was murdered by a rebel mob during the war.