US honeymoon killer indicted

An American man known as the honeymoon killer has been indicted on two murder counts in his home state of Alabama after being deported from Australia.



Thirty-three year-old Gabe Watson, served a jail term in Australia for the manslaughter of his wife while scuba-diving during their honeymoon on the Great Barrier Reef.



Australia agreed to deport him on the condition he would not face the death penalty if he were re-tried in Alabama.



Alabama's attorney-general, Troy King, says Watson has been indicted by a grand jury on counts of capital murder in the course of kidnapping and capital murder for pecuniary gain.



He said prosecutors believed Watson had come up with his plan to kill his wife, Tina, while they were in Alabama, giving the state the right to try the case.



It was alleged that Watson turned off his new bride's air supply during the diving trip in 2003 and held her underwater.



He was initially charged with murder in Queensland in 2008.



In 2009, he pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter and completed an 18-month sentence in a Queensland prison earlier this month.