The man who led the botched child abduction case in Beirut is set to do some jail time in the Lebanese capital after a court decision is ruled today.
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Chief planner Adam Whittington is still being held and will hear the verdict for himself at the Baabda Palace of Justice and all those involved in the 60 Minutes fiasco, including Tara Brown and her TV crew, plus Brisbane mum Sally Faulkner and the professional child ‘rescue’ crew who were hired to bring the kids back to Australia.
Whittington, who was a former Aussie soldier turned British cop, is expected to remain in jail for a few more months as judicial sources say he had a past criminal record in Singapore for a similar botched operation. He was jailed for 10 weeks and expelled from the country.
A source at Baabda said that based on this, “These are the sorts of things that are taken into account and have been looked at in this case.”
Tara Brown and producer Stephen Rice
Whittington’s lawyers have applied for bail.
All nine people involved will be ruled on as a whole and not individually, and are facing charges of felony kidnapping. They could be found guilty of absentia and receive a suspended sentence, not having return to Lebanon.
Ms Brown, Ms Faulkner and the 60 Minutes crew were released from prison after Channel 9 reportedly paid at least $50,000 to father of the ‘kidnapped’ children Ali Elamine, leading him to drop the civil claim.
Judge Rami Abdullah has been investigating the case and announce his judgement later today.
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