Article: 15 DAYS IN HELL; (1) Gillian Gibbons: Guilty of 'insulting Islam' (2) African dream: Gillian Gibbons in the Sudan.

Byline: DAVID WILLIAMS, CHRISTIAN GYSIN

THE British teacher who let her pupils call a teddy bear Mohammedescaped a flogging yesterday - but must now endure 15 days in a notorious Sudanjail.

Gillian Gibbons will be incarcerated at the squalid Omdurman women's prison inKhartoum, which is massively overcrowded and infested with mosquitoes..

The 54-year-old from Liverpool was said to be 'stunned' by the sentence imposedfor insulting Islam - after which she will be deported from Sudan.

Last night, her conviction and punishment were furiously condemned and theForeign Office was criticised for not fighting her case more forcefully.

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