It was an anxious wait for Wobiro, Dr Modowa Gumoi, Norman May and their families who turned up in numbers to the Waigani National Court precinct.
On standby at the airport was a chartered jet that would fly him to Kiunga, if the court had ruled in his favour.
The decision of the three-man Supreme Court bench however went against them. The bench by majority dismissed his appeal against conviction and sentence.
