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Mum delighted activist "wasn't harpooned"
The relieved mother of freed ship captive Giles Lane joked today: "I am glad he wasn't harpooned"
Sarina Lane spoke after son Giles, 35, rang her to say he was safe after being transferred from the Japanese whaler Yushin Maru 2, after being kept there since Tuesday.
Cuckfield-born Giles, whose family also lived at Poynings and Fulking, was bound aboard the ship with another Sea Shepherd conservation campaigner after stepping on to the ship to deliver a letter claiming the ship's whaling was illegal.
Giles, one of two sons, has served in Northern Ireland in the Parachute Regiment and is a trained mountaineer.
Mrs Lane said at her home in Steyning: "I am glad it has been a happy ending. I am glad he wasn't harpooned- that was my first thought. I have lived with this sort of thing for 18 years. I have been through him serving in Northern Ireland, where they hated the Parachute regiment, and the danger of his mountaineering, and this incident was a lot less worrying than that."
Mrs Lane said Giles paid for his time off pursuing Sea Shepherd campaigns by taking schools on mountaineering. She laughed: "He's 35. He should know better. But he is very caring about the world and he puts his money where his mouth is. You leave your children to lead their own lives.
"He's a very calm lad. He would have handled all this well."
There is unlikely to be a quick family reunion as Giles is likely to stay to see the anti-whaling campaign finished. Mrs Lane said: "I don't know what he intends to do. I haven't a clue."
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