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The Fat Lady Sings.
TWO peace activists who painted No War on the Sydney Opera House were today sentenced to nine months periodic detention.Yay! David Burgess, 33, and Will Saunders, 42, were convicted late last year of malicious damage after painting No War on the tallest sail of the Opera House on March 18, 2003. NSW District Court Judge Anthony Blackmore today sentenced the pair to nine months weekend jail and ordered they jointly pay $111,000 compensation to the Sydney Opera House Trust. Weekend jail? Is that nine months of weekends, or weekends for only nine months? Earlier in todayâs proceedings the pair handed over a cheque for $40,000 to the trust. I smell a new fund-raising idea. Fonely we could get someone to paint the Met... Posted by: growler 2004-01-30 |
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