Ex policeman Dmitry Pavlyuchenkov  has been jailed for 11 years in a prison camp over the murder of the journalist Anna Politkovskaya.

Dmitry Pavlyuchenkov admitted tracking Politkovskaya so that she could be assassinated in 2006.

The established journalism was well known for her hard hitting reporting and her criticism of the Kremlin under Vladimir Putin.

Politkovskaya was shot dead in the lift of her flat block in Moscow on October 7, 2006.

She was shot twice in the chest, once in the shoulder, and once – at point blank range – in the head.

Politkovskaya made her name with her reports from Chechnya, which became the subject of several books. She won many international awards for her writing, mainly with the Russian newspaper, critical of Putin, Novaya gazeta.

She published her reporting experiences in the book Putin’s Russia, which won global acclaim.

Pavlyuchenkov made a plea bargain with the court which meant he was given a reduced sentence.

He was ordered to pay 3m rubles (£60,500) compensation to Politkovskaya’s family. They had asked for 10m rubles.

The former policeman was tried separately from five other men accused of the reporter’s murder.

The other defendants include three members of the same Chechen family.

Rustam Makhmudov is accused of firing the shot that killed Politkovskaya, and his brothers Dzhabrail and Ibragim are accused of acting as getaway drivers.

They were tried in 2009 and acquitted but the Russian Supreme Court ordered their retrial.