A court in Serbia has convicted and jailed the parents of a teenage boy who shot dead nine pupils and a school guard last year and wounded six more people in primary school in central Belgrade.

A Belgrade court on Monday sentenced the parents of a 13-year-old boy to prison after he shot dead nine students and a security guard at an elementary school in Serbia's capital last year.

The parents of a teenage boy who killed nine children and a security guard in a mass shooting at a school in Serbia last year have been jailed. The boy's father, Vladimir Kecmanoviæ, was sentenced to 14-and-a-half years imprisonment on Monday,