THE parents of two British medical students stabbed to death while on a placement in Malaysia have said they are "pleased" after a man was found guilty of murder, but added that the verdict will not bring their sons back.

Zulkipli Abdullah, a 23-year-old fishmonger, was sentenced to death at the high court where prosecutor Muhamad Iskandar Ahmad said he had told friends he wanted to "test his strength" against bigger and taller foreigners before going after the two men.

The victims, Aidan Brunger and Neil Dalton, both aged 22, had been working at a local hospital in Kuching - an area popular with backpackers.

They were stabbed and killed after an incident in a bistro or cafe in the early hours of the morning, an inquest into their deaths heard last year.

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