SUVA, Fiji -- The would-be defense counsel for Fijian coup leader George Speight is facing his own legal problems following charges of felony, perverting the course of justice and producing false ...

Fiji's High Court sentenced indigenous coup leader George Speight to death for treason today but the South Pacific nation's president immediately commuted the sentence to life in prison.

Advertisement The passing of time is there in all of them. Speight’s son, George, is no longer the cheeky kid with floppy hair smiling brightly in the photograph of his father he digs out.