内容摘要：Mr Huxtable, from Pontypridd, Rhondda Cynon Taf, has completed the majority of his work from Nodor's Bridgend headquarters for about 25 years, but also travels to Kenya where their darts are mass-produced for the retail market.

Mr Huxtable, from Pontypridd, Rhondda Cynon Taf, has completed the majority of his work from Nodor's Bridgend headquarters for about 25 years, but also travels to Kenya where their darts are mass-produced for the retail market.

Jules said her husband had always been so determined to recover that he had not planned much for his funeral."I didn't like to bring it up too much in case he thought that I thought he was going to die," she said.

"We did have a funny conversation once when he said 'if you keep talking funerals you're really damaging my confidence here'. So I stopped."James Chippendale, the co-founder of Peters' charity, Love Hope Strength, said the celebration of his life was "very, very Mike Peters"."A little bit grungy, a little bit long, a little bit funny, a little bit sad, great music, and it just couldn't have been a more perfect ending," he said.

Paying tribute to his friend of 18 years, Mr Chippendale, who travelled from Mexico for the funeral, said: "Here's the thing about Mike - whether you were his great mate like me, or his fans, he's always the same."What you saw on stage, what you saw when he was interacting with the fans, was Mike."

He said the musician changed the lives of people who did not even know him through his charity work.

Fans travelled from far and wide to pay tribute to the singer.But in her judgement read out to the court, Judge Aude Burési said that, while the court had "heard perfectly the demands from the plaintiffs that Le Scouarnec should never be released from jail, it would be demagogic and fanciful to let them believe that would be possible".

"In fact," she added, "the rule of law does not allow for that to happen."One of Le Scouarnec's victims, Amélie Lévêque, said the verdict had "shocked" her and that she would have liked preventive detention to be imposed. "How many victims would it take? A thousand?"

She argued that French law needed to change and allow for harsher sentences to take into account the serial nature of crimes.Similar complaints were raised in the aftermath of the Pelicot trial last December, in which Dominique Pelicot was found guilty of drugging and raping his wife, Gisèle, and recruited dozens of men to abuse her over almost a decade.