Ady Gil skipper anti-whaler Pete Bethune, gets suspended sentence

7:52 AM Wed 7 Jul 2010 GMT

'Pete Bethune skipper of the biodiesel powered EARTHRACE.

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Pete Bethune says outside court -'All I wanted was justice for the loss of my boat, the Ady Gil, and the attempted murder of my crew.' The trial in Japan of environmentalist and anti-whaling campaigner, Pete Bethune, 45, reached its conclusion today At 13.30 JST, amidst tight security, the Japanese court handed down a two year sentence, suspended for five years. During his trial, Bethune accepted four of the charges but strenuously refuted the charge of injuring a Japanese crewman, insisting that the man injured himself using his own pepper spray. Bethune, who in 2008 broke the official global circumnavigation ...

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