>More mediatized of these metric martyrs was >certainly Steve Thoburn, merchant the four-season >one of Sunderland, in the North-East of England: after - >somewhat vigorously - having refused to convert its >balances to post the weights in grams and kilogrammes, >it finally had been imprisoned,
False. Nobody went to prison. >then condemned to six months of prison with deferment. False. It was a 6 month conditional discharge. http://www.courtservice.gov.uk/cms/2714.htm "A discharge of a convicted defendant without sentence on condition that he/she does not re-offend within a specified period of time."
