In this December 3, 2010 file photo, Mexican soldiers present Edgar "El Ponchis" Jimenez Lugo to the media in the city of Cuernavaca, Mexico. Picture: AP Source: AP
A TEENAGE hitman who beheaded four boys in Mexico while working for a drug cartel is set to be freed from jail.
Edgar Jimenez Lugo was sentenced to three years' jail, the maximum allowed under the law, afer admitting to killing the boys in central Mexico.
Their bodies were found hanging from a bridge in the tourist town of Cuernavaca.
Mexican authorities are now keen to deport Lugo back to his native America after his release on December 3, the New York Daily News reports.
After he was arrested at age 14, Lugo calmly admitted to the killings but said he was kidnapped three years earlier and forced to work for the Cartel of The South Pacific.
"I participated in four executions, but I did it drugged and under threat that if I didn't, they would kill me," he told reporters at the time.
Lugo became notorious at the time due to his age and a YouTube video of him beating a man also surfaced.
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