Four French nationals were convicted Thursday of beating two gay tourists from New York on this Dutch Caribbean island in a brutal attack that left one of the victims, an employee of the CBS News show ``48 Hours,'' with brain damage.
Three citizens of the island's French half, Glen Cockly, Micheline Delaney and Allan Daniel, and a man from the nearby French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, Michel Javois, were found guilty of public violence and grievous bodily harm by Judge Jan Bosch.
Bosch determined that Javois, nicknamed Duracell, was the one who assaulted Ryan Smith and Richard Jefferson with a tire iron as they left a bar with friends on April 6.
Smith suffered brain damage and was unable to speak properly for months. Jefferson's skull was cracked by a blow from the tire iron.
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