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Updated on 03 December 2007

By Nick Paton Walsh

Freed by presidential pardon and now flying home. The teacher jailed in Sudan for allowing her pupils to name a teddy bear Mohammed was said to be in "remarkably good spirits".

Gillian Gibbons left Khartoum to fly back to Britain the 54 year old had been released just days after being sentenced for insulting Islam.

In a statement - she had apologised for causing any distress.

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