Treasure hunter freed after decade in prison for not revealing location of gold

Tommy Thompson refused to give up the location of 500 missing coins found in a historic shipwreck

A US treasure hunter who was imprisoned for 10 years after refusing to reveal the location of missing gold coins has been released from prison, without officials apparently ever learning where that gold is.

Tommy Thompson - a renowned salvager who in 1998 found the long-lost, so-called Ship of Gold near South Carolina - was freed from federal prison on 4 March, records and reports recently indicated.