Fantastic to hear today that Liverpool schoolteacher Gillian Gibbons has been pardoned by the president of Sudan and released.
As the comments we have received on this story clearly demonstrate, the consensus from moderate, sensible people of all faiths was that her conviction and imprisonment for the "offence" of allowing her classroom of seven-years-old children to name their teddy bear Mohammed was a travesty of justice.
Thankfully, common sense has prevailed, and Gillian should be safely back in the UK by tomorrow.
It was looking far from certain that this would be the outcome at one point, with calls from extremists in Sudan for her to be retried and given a harsher sentence than the fifteen days she had received. When you hear of lunatics calling for her to be executed, you realise just how far from reality some people are capable of drifting on issues like this.
One can only imagine the impact that this ordeal will have had on Mrs Gibbons, and I am sure all our readers would join me in wishing her well in putting this horrifying experience behind her as quickly as she can.
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