Life sentence

Villiami Taani shot Abraham Tu'uheava and his wife Yolanda in an 'execution-style killing' on Greenwood Road in Māngere last May.

Mr Tu'uheava, a patched Nomads member, died on the rural stretch but his wife survived, despite being shot twice in the head.

In the High Court at Auckland this morning, Taani was jailed for life, with a minimum non-parole period of 17-and-a-half years.

His cousins Fisilau Tapaevalu and Mesui Tufui were found guilty of murder and attempted murder after a four-week trial last month.

They will be sentenced next Friday.

Known as the "Butcher of Bosnia", Mladic led forces during the massacre of Bosnian Muslims (Bosniaks) in Srebrenica and the siege of Sarajevo.

The UN tribunal in The Hague convicted him on 10 of the 11 charges.

Mladic, 74, was not in court when the sentence was read out. He had been removed for shouting at the judges.

"It's a lie. Everything you said in this courtroom is a lie," he said.

The outburst came after the judges rejected a request by his team to halt the proceedings because of Mladic's high blood pressure.