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| Australian mother and TV crew set for release in Lebanon kidnapping case | Australian mother and TV crew set for release in Lebanon kidnapping case |
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| Australian mother Sally Faulkner, journalist Tara Brown and three television crew members are set for release from a Beirut jail after a deal was struck to dismiss kidnapping charges against them in exchange for compensation. | |
| But a British “child recovery agent” and two others implicated in the alleged attempt to kidnap Faulkner’s two children from her estranged Lebanese husband will remain in the country to face the charges, which carry a maximum 20-year sentence. | But a British “child recovery agent” and two others implicated in the alleged attempt to kidnap Faulkner’s two children from her estranged Lebanese husband will remain in the country to face the charges, which carry a maximum 20-year sentence. |
| Related: How did it come to this? Inside the doomed bid to snatch Sally Faulkner's children | Related: How did it come to this? Inside the doomed bid to snatch Sally Faulkner's children |
| Brown and the crew, from the Nine Network’s 60 Minutes program, had to pay compensation in order to secure their release. Nine said its staff could be on a flight back to Australia as early as Wednesday night. | |
| Lawyers for Faulkner and her former partner, Ali al-Amin, confirmed a deal had been struck earlier on Wednesday before it was presented at about 11am to judge Rami Abdullah. | Lawyers for Faulkner and her former partner, Ali al-Amin, confirmed a deal had been struck earlier on Wednesday before it was presented at about 11am to judge Rami Abdullah. |
| The precise details, including the amount paid in compensation over the botched alleged child-snatching, remain unclear. | The precise details, including the amount paid in compensation over the botched alleged child-snatching, remain unclear. |
| A defiant Ali al-Amin had said on Monday he was reluctant to drop charges against his former partner if it made it more likely that the 60 Minutes crew, and others involved in the operation, would be freed too. | |
| “They are trying to push for that if Sally gets bail, they all get bail,” he said. “I said then I will charge everyone involved and I say it today. It will take some time. I am in no hurry.” | “They are trying to push for that if Sally gets bail, they all get bail,” he said. “I said then I will charge everyone involved and I say it today. It will take some time. I am in no hurry.” |
| Faulkner, Brown and seven others were charged last week with armed abduction, purveying threats, and physical harm after an attempt to allegedly snatch five-year-old Lahela and Noah, three, while they were out walking on a south Beirut street. | Faulkner, Brown and seven others were charged last week with armed abduction, purveying threats, and physical harm after an attempt to allegedly snatch five-year-old Lahela and Noah, three, while they were out walking on a south Beirut street. |
| The children had been taken to Beirut under the guise of a three-week holiday by their father in May and not returned. | The children had been taken to Beirut under the guise of a three-week holiday by their father in May and not returned. |