In the end, the five-year sentence was harsher than the three-year suspended sentence newspapers had predicted.
Amir's lawyer Henry Blaxland argued for a suspended sentence that would allow his immediate release.
Thirteen were jailed for between three and 13 years, while one received a suspended sentence.
One was given a community order and the other a 16-week suspended sentence at Merthyr Crown Court.
He was given a six-month suspended sentence and ordered to do 100 hours of unpaid community work.
He was later given an 18-month suspended sentence by a Munich court after Lux filed assault charges.
In 1997 he received a suspended sentence for false book-keeping but that conviction was reversed on appeal.
She was given a four month suspended sentence last year after Colchester Borough Council brought the action against the family.
In February, US businessman John Napoli, 51, of Sevenoaks, Kent, was given a 12-month suspended sentence for unauthorised deposit taking.
Previously, Ellis admitted affray and received a suspended sentence which has been activated after he failed to comply with another order.
Prosecuting Sian Vaughan said Brooks was already the subject of a curfew order, having breached a previous suspended sentence for another matter.
He is currently serving a suspended sentence for a separate assault on ex-Manchester City colleague Ousmane Dabo in a training ground row.
The PSNI assistant chief constable told politicians that those criminals involved in fuel smuggling were more likely to get a suspended sentence.
She also admitted wasting police time and was given a suspended sentence.
Following Mr Gray's death, Dr Ubani was handed a nine-month suspended sentence by a German court after he admitted causing death by negligence.
Last week, six of the 11 care workers who admitted the neglect or abuse of patients were jailed, and five more given a suspended sentence.
The WICB disciplinary committee had said they would prefer for Samuels not to face a ban, recommending a suspended sentence on account of Samuels' good behaviour.
The case went to trial with lightning speed, and last week a court in Almaty convicted Mr Abilov of slander, giving him an 18-month suspended sentence.
He also admitted breaking the suspended sentence by taking a car from a driveway in Dawlish, in February, and writing it off on the A379 to Teignmouth.
In 2005, a Paris court imposed a suspended sentence of 15 months on Drut for taking money from fictitious jobs linked to public construction contracts from 1990-92.
Reid was already subject to a suspended sentence after he obtained credit while bankrupt and sold four vehicles which should have been handed over to the Official Receiver.
The judge rejected calls for a suspended sentence saying that while Bather drove the wrong way for only one-tenth of a mile (0.16 km), it was very dangerous.
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Of the other defendants, Dr Philippe van Winkelberg and Christophe Letien received a one-year suspended sentence, and Alain Peligat and journalist Marie-Agnes Peleran were each given six-month suspended terms, French media reports.
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He is currently trying to clean up his act and qualify as a personal trainer, but he's still on a suspended sentence so his offending days are not yet fully behind him.
Earlier this year, Mr McManus was given an 18 month suspended sentence on charges relating to an incident in February 2010 in which a man suffered serious injury from a sword or machete attack.
Interestingly, the prosecutor and magistrate today both raised, in abstract terms, the possibility of the charges against Oscar Pistorius being reduced from murder to culpable homicide - something which could mean a fine or suspended sentence rather than a long jail term.
In addition, a Continental mechanic, John Taylor, was given a 15-month suspended prison sentence over the crash.
He was given a suspended prison sentence and fined, according to press reports.
Daniele Canarelli was given a suspended prison sentence of one year, in the first case of its kind in France.
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