■ Canada
Suspected spy to be deported
A man authorities accused of being an elite Russian spy will be deported, a court decided on Monday after the 45-year-old admitted he was not Canadian and had been in the country illegally. A Federal Court judge found that a security certificate issued against a man claiming to be Paul William Hampel was reasonable, clearing the way for his deportation. The man, whose real identity was kept secret, did not contest the security certificate on Monday, despite insisting the previous week that he was a Canadian-born citizen. He never admitted to being a spy.
■ Canada
Woman gets 16 months
Frenchwoman Nathalie Gettliffe was sentenced on Monday to 16 months in jail for kidnapping her two children by her former Canadian husband and holding them for five years. A Vancouver judge called the case of Gettliffe, a professor of English at a French university and mother of four, one "of the most tragic circumstances I have ever had to deal with." The judge added three years of probation under strict conditions to the jail sentence for the 2001 kidnapping, in which Gettliffe took her son and daughter away from her former husband and flew them to France, hiding them with members of her family.
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