(27 May 2003)
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Macapa, Brazil - December 2001
1. Wide shot police vehicle driving into compound
2. Seven men convicted (then suspected) of killing New Zealand yachtsmen Peter Blake leave vehicle
3. Various men inside police station
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Macapa, Brazil - January 20002
4. Wide shot courtroom
5. Wide shot convicted men (then accused)
6. Various guns and evidence
Macapa, Brazil - December 2001
7. Various Blake's Seamaster boat
8. Mid shot police on board
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Brazil - 2001
9. Wide shot boat
10. Various Blake talking to visitors
11. Blake and crew on board small boats on river
12. Mid shot crocodiles
13. Blake and crew in dinghy
14. Blake on beach, looks towards camera
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Rio de Janeiro - September 2001
15. Blake laughing on board boat
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Warbington, Hampshire, UK - December 2001
16. Wide shot Blake's funeral
17. Mid shot New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark
18. Mid shot British yachtswoman Ellen MacArthur
19. Various coffin being carried through graveyard
STORYLINE:
The Brazilian court of appeals on Tuesday is scheduled to give it's ruling on the six men convicted of killing New Zealand yachtsman Peter Blake in June 2002.
The Macapa courtroom has reviewed the cases of the six men who were sentenced to more than 20 years each for killing and robbing the sailing great during a failed robbery attempt on the Amazon river in Brazil in December 2001.
Ricardo Colares Tavares, who confessed to firing the fatal shots, received the maximum sentence of more than 36 years.
Five others received sentences ranging from 35 years to 26 years.
Several of the sentences were largely symbolic, because under Brazilian law no one can serve more than 30 years in prison at a single stretch.
Peter Blake who led New Zealand to America's Cup victories in 1995 and 2000, was on a worldwide expedition to monitor global warming and pollution when he was killed.
He was returning from a two-month stay in the upper reaches of the Amazon and Rio Negro rivers at the time of the robbery near Macapa, 1,800 miles (2,800 km) northwest of Rio de Janeiro.
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