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AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd sentenced to home detention

Xinhua, July 9, 2015 Adjust font size:

A New Zealand district court in Tauranga sentenced AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd to eight months home detention on drugs and threatening to kill Thursday.

According to the judge Thomas Ingram, Rudd would be monitored 24 hours a day during his home detention, to be served at his waterfront Tauranga mansion. The judge warned Rudd he would go to prison if he breached the terms of his sentence.

Rudd appeared in the court for sentencing after pleading guilty to possession of cannabis and methamphetamine and one charge of threatening to kill. He has been on bail the whole time.

Affidavits to the court said Rudd would lose tens of millions of dollars if he was convicted because he couldn't tour to certain countries with AC/DC. However, the judge said that he was not convinced that Rudd's drumming was integral to the AC/DC sound.

The judge refused Rudd's application to be discharged without conviction.

It was revealed in November last year that Rudd had been arrested in Tauranga and charged with drugs offences and attempting to procure a murder.

Previously Rudd has said to the media that he's seen the error of his ways and wished he was touring with AC/DC again. AC/DC are due to play concerts in New Zealand this December, the last gigs of a world tour. Endi