Former Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks has married his girlfriend

David Hicks marries in Sydney
August 3, 2009

Former Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks has married his girlfriend, Aloysia Brooks, in Sydney.

His father, Terry Hicks, who attended the wedding, said he was glad to see his son getting on with his life.

"We are grateful that things are going along an even line and he can get on and hopefully be left alone," he told The Advertiser newspaper.

"They're going to enjoy themselves and get on with their lives, and that's what it's about."

Major Michael Mori, the former US military defence lawyer for Mr Hicks, was also spotted at the weekend wedding in the northern Sydney suburb of Terrey Hills, the newspaper said.

Mr Hicks, who pleaded guilty to a charge of supporting terrorism, was held at the US military detention centre in Cuba for more than five years after being captured in Afghanistan in December 2001.

In March 2007, under a plea bargain, he was sentenced to seven years' jail but ordered to serve only nine months with the rest of his sentence suspended.

He returned to Australia and was released from Adelaide's Yatala jail more 18 months ago.

Mr Hicks met Ms Brooks after he moved to Sydney last year.

http://www.smh.com.au/national/david-hicks-marries-in-sydney-20090802-e5y1.html
*************

("Mr Hicks, who pleaded guilty to a charge of supporting terrorism" ie-handed over for cash to the USA while standing at a bus-stop in Kabul)