This is only a guess, but it may well be that Australian law only provides for prosecuting the juvenile as a juvenile, and once it was realized that he was a juvenile the charges (as an adult) were withdrawn. Then, for whatever reason, they declined to charge him as a juvenile (or they did charge him as a juvenile, but the article doesn't say so, which wouldn't be a surprise considering the article doesn't even bother to tell us what they were charged with in the first place..)
I wonder if a catapult might qualify for a "chartered flight".. :)
Sounds good to me, and I'm sorry that the article is so sparse. Perhaps the writer was laughing so much he couldn't write any more?
I wonder if a catapult might qualify for a "chartered flight".. :)
It would certainly dissuade them and other 'gypsy fishermen' from violating Australia's territorial waters again.....