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Hicks in Australia to serve out sentence

David Hicks - To serve out sentence in Australia
David Hicks - To serve out sentence in Australia

David Hicks, the Australian man convicted of supporting terrorism by a US military court, has arrived home to serve out his sentence.

The former Guantanamo Bay detainee spent five years at the US detention centre in Cuba, and under a deal with prosecutors will serve only seven more months of a seven-year sentence.

The 31-year-old will serve his sentence in Yalata prison near Adelaide.

Hicks is the first person from the camp to be convicted of terror charges.