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A former CIA officer has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for drugging and sexually assaulting dozens of women while on assignment in the US and overseas.

She met Claxton when he was on assignment photographing an actor friend of hers.

The US citizen would arrange with the Journal to be based in London but go into Russia on assignment for two or three weeks at a time before returning to the UK.

The Wall Street Journal reporter was taken into Russian custody while on assignment in Yekaterinburg in March 2023 and sentenced to 16 years in prison by a Russian court in July following a rushed trial that the U.S. denounced as a “scam.”

Omaar covers major news stories across the world for ITV News and also presents current affairs programme On Assignment.