1985: Agents plead guilty in Rainbow Warrior trial
Two French secret service agents have dramatically changed their pleas on charges relating to the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior in Auckland Harbour, New Zealand.
A Greenpeace photographer, Fernando Pereira, died in the attack which sunk the vessel - the flagship of environmental group Greenpace - last July.
Today in the High Court in Auckland, Alain Mafart and Dominique Prieur pleaded guilty to arson and manslaughter.
At an earlier hearing the agents had pleaded not guilty to charges of arson, conspiring to commit arson and murder.
New Zealand's Solicitor General Paul Neazor, QC, told the court the Crown was prepared to accept a plea on the lesser charge of manslaughter.