Karm Gilespie's death sentence labelled diplomatic leverage 'deliberately created' by China

Verdict is political play at time of escalating tension with Australia, former detainees say

The Australian man Karm Gilespie's death sentence is diplomatic leverage deliberately created by China, a former investigator who was detained in China for two years has said.

Peter Humphrey, a former fraud investigator and foreign correspondent who was detained in China with his wife from 2013 to 2015, said it was inconceivable that the death sentence was unrelated to diplomatic tensions with Australia, and the sentence had nothing to do with the original case against him".