Peter Bethune receives suspended sentence
Peter Bethune, conservationist and anti-whaling campaigner, has received a suspended sentence by a Japanese court and has returned to New Zealand.
A bankrupt and former director of a home improvement company, Peter Stephen Matthews of Suffolk, was this week sentenced to 3 months imprisonment suspended for 12 months plus a Community Order with a requirement to complete 180 hours unpaid work, by Cambridge Crown Court following an investigation and prosecution by The Insolvency Service and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.