Before sentences could be handed out Samuel Hinga Norman died of natural causes during surgery in Dakar, Senegal.[9] Fofana and Kondewa were found guilty of the charges of murder, pillage and the use of child soldiers and were sentenced to six and eights years respectively. In 2008 the appeal court changed the sentencing and gave Fofna fifteen years and Kondewa twenty years to be served out in Rwandan prison.[10]