Witness PW4 a Seychellois skipper and the Captain of the vessel Faith bearing registration number SZ1146 testified that on the 9th of November, 2010 he had gone fishing in the outer islands with six other Seychellois. It was their evidence that on the 16th of November, 2010 between 07.00 pm and 08.00 pm, while looking for sea cucumbers at some point about 41 to 42 nautical miles from Mahe island, one of them heard the noise of outboard engines and before he could go out to see who was coming someone started shouting "pirates, pirates, pirates". At the same time, the crew heard the men who had arrived in two small boats banging the ship and shouting "stop, stop, stop".

By that time, four intruders armed with AK 47 guns had already boarded the Faith and started harassing the fishermen and asking for money and other items. They pointed guns at them and most of the time on the head and threatened to kill them. They ordered the witnesses to take them to Somalia and threatened to cut their necks if the Seychelles government did not pay them three billion US dollars for their release. It was their evidence that the assailants spoke to them in broken English while others used sign language or gestures. The two small boats had gone back and fetched more men. That another boat, bigger than the two small ones was later signaled to join the three vessels. All the eleven men from the three vessels had boarded the Faith with rifles and Rocket Propelled Grenades (RPG).

Judgement: The judge was convinced that the attack was well planned and coordinated. All the accused were found to be willing participants in the whole enterprise and none of them raised any aspect of involuntary participation. It was found to be a concerted effort by all the accused from which common intention could be positively inferred.

Each one of the ten accused persons were thus found guilty and convicted as charged on both piracy counts. @0 years for count 1 and 10 years for count 2 to run concurrently.