Israeli Yosef Haim Ben David Convicted of Burning Palestinian Teenager to Death

Yosef Haim Ben David was convicted for the July 2014 murder of Mohammed Abu Khdeir

Israeli Yosef Haim Ben-David (C), the ringleader of the killing of Palestinian teenager Mohammed Abu Khdeir last year, is escorted by Israeli policemen at the district court in Jerusalem on April 19, 2016. An Israeli court ruled that a Jewish man found to be the ringleader of the beating and burning alive of the Palestinian teenager in 2014 was sane and responsible for his actions. Israeli settler Yosef Haim Ben-David, 31, was found in November to have led the assault, but his lawyers had submitted last-minute documents saying he suffered from mental illness. / AFP / AHMAD GHARABLI Photo credit should read AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP/Getty Images

Yosef Haim Ben David was convicted on April 19 for the July 2014 murder of a Palestinian teenager.

Ben David, 30, the main suspect of the crime, was convicted by a district court in Jerusalem, after rejecting his insanity plea claiming he was not responsible for his actions.

“The court has found that at the time he committed the offense, the accused was not psychotic, fully understood the facts, was responsible for his actions, had no difficulty in understanding reality and had the capacity to prevent the crime,” said the Justice Ministry, according to the Times of Israel.

Ben David will be sentenced next month and may face up to life in prison for the murder of 16-year-old Mohammed Abu Khdeir, which was a revenge for the death of three kidnapped Israeli teens earlier that summer.

Suha (L), the mother of Palestinian teenager Mohammed Abu Khdeir, who was killed last year, stands with protestors outside the district court in Jerusalem on November 30, 2015. Menahem Kahana/AFP/Getty Images