BANGKOK — A court in Bangkok on Friday sentenced a Thai man who shot and killed an opposition politician from Cambodia to life in prison. The January shooting in Thailand's capital was widely seen as a political assassination but who might have ordered the killing was not revealed in the trial.

Lim Kimya, a former lawmaker from the dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party, was fatally shot on Jan. 7 in broad daylight near Bangkok's Khaosan Road, a neighborhood popular with backpacking tourists.

The gunman, who fled the scene and made his way across the border to Cambodia, was identified as Ekkalak Pheanoi. He was arrested and deported from Cambodia, and later confessed, according to authorities.

Ekkalak told authorities that he was hired to carry out the shooting, but the trial never es

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