August 17, 2005

Hoax crash SMS: Man freed

Following the court's conviction for filing a false report to authorities, Nektarios Voutas was freed after a judge suspended his six-month sentence.

Voutas falsely claiming he received a text message from a passenger on a Cypriot airliner shortly before the plane crashed killing everyone on board. [viaNews24.

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