Welcome-Back Party Awaits Teacher After Sudan Pardon

The Commercial Appeal (2007-Current) › December 04, 2007

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LIVERPOOL, England - Gillian Gibbons' family gathered with beer, wine and flowers Monday, waiting to welcome home the British teacher jailed by Sudan for allowing her students to name a teddy bear Muhammad.

"It's been a strange old week, very stressful and particularly bad for the family, but now she's coming home, fingers crossed," her son, John Gibbons, said after it was announced his mother had been pardoned and left Sudan. "If this week has taught me anything, it is that anything can happen."

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Welcome-Back Party Awaits Teacher After Sudan Pardon

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