Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro (70) has been sentenced to 27 years and three months in prison after being found guilty of plotting a military coup. A panel of five Supreme Court justices handed down the sentence just hours after they had convicted the former leader. They ruled he was guilty of leading a conspiracy aimed at keeping him in power after he lost the 2022 election to his rival, the amiable Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Four of the justices found him guilty while one voted to acquit him. Bolsonaro's lawyers have called the sentence "absurdly excessive" and said that they would file "the appropriate appeals." The Supreme Court panel also barred him from running for public office until 2033. Bolsonaro is under house arrest and did not attend this final phase of the trial in person.