1.   Pleading no contest to charges of improper handling of a firearm and reckless driving, Metcalf drew a suspended jail sentence.

2.   Terrence Duncan was given a three-month suspended jail sentence for living off immoral earnings.

3.   The former secretary at Swindon Town football club has been given a suspended jail sentence for conspiring to cheat the Inland Revenue.

4.   Chairman from four other major business groups received suspended jail sentences.

5.   Eight other Belgian party officials were also convicted of various other corruption charges and received suspended jail terms of up to two years each.

6.   He received a six-month suspended jail sentence with unsupervised probation.

7.   He received a three-year suspended jail sentence, the maximum demanded by the prosecution, and was barred from holding office for five years.

8.   He received a suspended jail sentence.

9.   In October, a Tokyo court gave suspended jail sentences to four men convicted of selling used fishing boats to North Korea without government permits.

10.   Moore accepted a plea bargain for third-degree assault and was given a suspended jail sentence.