No custodial sentence for 'mooning' student

An Irish college student who spent four weeks in a West African jail for 'mooning' some friends in a Senegalese city was convicted of public indecency today and fined about €2,200 , lawyers said.

Patrick Devine, a 19-year-old student at Belfast's Queens University who was spending the summer in Senegal, also received a four-month suspended sentence, said his lawyer, Moustapha Diop.