What The Hell? Australia???

[WillowTree]

Diver Gabe Watson to serve one year after pleading guilty to manslaughter of wife

Watson was sentenced to four and a half years, with 12 months suspended after he formally entered the plea of guilty to the manslaughter of his new wife, Christina (Tina), during his arraignment in the Queensland Supreme Court in Brisbane on Friday.

He had been charged with murder, to which he pleaded not guilty, but crown prosecutors accepted the plea to the lesser charge.

Watson married Tina (nee Thomas) in a ceremony described by her friends as her dream wedding in Birmingham, Alabama, on October 11, 2003.

Her body was found lying on the bottom of the ocean eleven days later by a dive instructor.

A coronial inquest into her death heard that a fellow diver saw Gabe Watson engaged in an underwater "bearhug'' with his petite wife, after which the bubble-wrap salesman headed for the surface while his wife fell to the ocean floor.

Diver Gabe Watson to serve one year after pleading guilty to manslaughter of wife | The Australian











That's a freaking tough sentence for murder donchyathink?

 

[Steve Jobs]

Taking the guy's beer away for a year is a freaking harsh penalty. Beyond cruel.

 

[Diuretic]

WHEN novice American diver Tina Thomas got into trouble under water on the Great Barrier Reef, her dive buddy, her husband of just 11 days, did not try to save her.

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