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World War II flying ace gets out of jail after 8 years

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Posted: Mar 04, 2009 at 1033 hrs IST

Bartow (US) An 87-year-old World War II hero who has been behind bars for more than eight years for terrorising one of his ex-wives in central Florida was sent home by a judge, despite a prosecutor's claims that he's still a dangerous man.

Abner Aust looked anything but dangerous as he shuffled into a courtroom wearing an orange jail outfit and an elaborate hearing aid.

The highly decorated flying ace who shot down enemy fighters over Japan in the waning days of World War II, pleaded with Circuit Judge Randall McDonald to free him so he can get the help he needs for a litany of medical problems.

"I'd just like to be out, sir," the diminutive, baldheaded Aust told the judge, who sentenced him to time served for violating probation and ordered him to spend the next two years on house arrest.

"I hope I'm not making a mistake," McDonald said.

Aust was "beside himself" over finally getting out, said his attorney, Ronald Kurpiers, who had argued that the elderly man was a national hero who deserved to live the rest of his life in freedom.

Kurpiers said Aust would no longer be a threat to his ex-wife, even after being convicted in separate cases of trying to hire someone to burn her house down and have her killed.

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