A hold in a 21'0" yacht ?

[Rum_Pirate]

Lawyers working for a British pensioner who is facing execution in Egypt for smuggling three tonnes of hashish in his sailing boat say their client is the victim of an elaborate international set-up and has been left “psychologically destroyed” by his ordeal.

Charles Ferndale, 74, who has worked as a freelance journalist for The Guardian and The Times, was sentenced to death by an Egyptian court yesterday alongside four other men who prosecutors said were part of an international smuggling gang.

The crew were arrested in 2011 when security forces and troops raided Mr Ferndale’s 21-ft yacht “Liberty” as it was passing through the Red Sea about 100 miles from the Egyptian-Sudanese border.

The other defendants, who included a Pakistani and three nationals from the Seychelles, were also sentenced to death by hanging after a court upheld an earlier ruling. The case will now go to appeal.

At the time of the arrests, in April 2011, articles in the Egyptian press trumpeted the capture of the alleged smugglers and carried photos of the blocks of hashish which were discovered in the hold of the boat.

Really?

I wonder what type of yacht that 21 footer is?

 

[DJE]

I wonder what type of yacht that 21 footer is?

A fat one if it can carry three tonnes of cargo!

 

[Leighb]

Perhaps meters and feet have been confused?

 

[Seajet]

I suspect there is a snag with translation, ie ' hold ' and 'cabin' may have been confused.

However the main subject of a 74 yr old British subject sentenced to death in dubious cicumstances is the real subject surely ?