Both Tara Brown and Sally Faulkner, currently awaiting a hearing in Beirut over their role in the disastrous ’60 Minutes’ story, faced judge Rami Abdullah in a brief meeting where they were told the decision on their fate would be postponed ’til Wednesday.
Brown appeared outside the court escorted by police who prevented her from looking at the gathered media scrum, though photographs were taken representing some of the first visual since the arrest.
The judge reminded the defendants, who were handcuffed, that the case was “not a custody case” but rather that they “are charged with kidnapping two kids.”
It doesn’t look good for either Sally Faulkner or the ’60 Minutes’ team. The child’s father Ali Elamine rebuked his earlier promise that he would drop charges, after he realised that extending that mercy to his wife would also mean ’60 Minutes’ would get off too – and he clearly wants to see them punished for their role. He told Fairfax:
“The way they are trying to push for this is that if Sally goes out on bail, they all get out. That is how I am seeing it as an outsider. … They are pushing for Sal’s release and everyone else gets a green card. [Nine] dropped the ball by getting involved in family matters [and now] everyone is blaming the other for what happened.”
Source: News.com.au.
Photo: Getty Images / Marwan Tahtah.
