A sketch of the Paris Special Assize Court shows, from left, defendants Abdelhakim Sefrioui, Louqmane Ingar, Azim Epsirkhanov, Priscilla Mangel and Brahim Chnina, second from right, in the trial of eight adults charged with driving a hate campaign that led to the murder of teacher Samuel Paty in 2020 [Benoit Peyrucq/AFP]

France’s anti-terrorism court has convicted eight people of involvement in the beheading of teacher Samuel Paty outside his school near Paris four years ago – a horrific death that shocked the country.

A French court sentenced eight people to prison terms ranging from one to 16 years for their roles in a hate campaign that culminated in the murder of a teacher who had shown caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad in class,