JAKARTA, June 21: An Indonesian court sentenced bombmaker Umar Patek to 20 years` jail on Thursday for his role in the 2002 Bali bombings.

Patek, 45, was found guilty of six charges, a number of which related to the twin suicide bombings on a Bali club and bar that killed 202 people.

`We sentence Umar Patek to 20 years in jail,` chief judge Encep Yuliardi told the West Jakarta district court.

Patek was found guilty of premeditated murder linked to the Bali bombings, and other charges related to the Christmas Eve bombings in 2000 on several churches that killed 19 people in Jakarta.

Upon hearing his fate, Patek stood up and shook the judges` and prosecutors` hands, before hugging his own lawyer and walking past reporters out of the court.-AFP