Ok So How Much Is This Eejit Going To Cost Us?

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-46288510

[ChillDoubt]

I said stating his innocence OR guilt. The only thing "skewed' is your eyesight/interpretation ChillDoubt.
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sevenOP
Your post at 23.44 mentions only guilt, there’s no ‘OR innocence’ inserted in there whatsoever.
Care to re-appraise?

[naomi24]

//Matthew Hedges, 31, of Durham University, has said he is innocent, and that he had been researching the country's security strategy.//

Who in their right mind would do that and expect it to be ignored? Crazy.

[sevenOP]

ChillDoubt, your reply @23:10 Wed 21st Nov 2018 was in response to my post @23:07 Wed 21st Nov 2018, where I did write "this man's innocence/guilt on minimal details".

Add 'short-term memory' problems to my last appraisal of our skewing.

[sevenOP]

^ should read 'your skewing'.

[Samuraisan]

Apparently he doesn't even speak Arabic. I would have thought that was imperative to study all he said he was going to.

[ChillDoubt]

We’re at cross purposes sevenOP.
Pretty much every post pronouncing him guilty of spying has been made t-i-c in sarcasm aimed at the UAE, but it appears you’ve missed that.
Or do you seriously believe the ABers actually concur with the court and applaud the sentence?
It’s patently obvious he’s not a spy or has been engaged in espionage.
He is guilty though of naivety, gullibility and pure idiocy in the current climate, though those three faults aren’t currently on the statute book.

[Old_Geezer]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-46341310

[naomi24]

Bet he's breathing a sigh of relief - and so he should be. Idiot.

[emmie]

yes he has been released, pardoned, and as you say breathing a sigh of relief.

[ToraToraTora]

Wonder what the bribe was.