Military policeman avoids jail term A senior military policeman who falsified paperwork to hide the fact an Afghan prisoner had been held longer than the regulation 96 hours has avoided a jail term and instead been demoted. David Sperry Pratt, 46, was found guilty by a Canberra court martial on Tuesday of two counts of making false entries in documents in 2010. On Wednesday an army panel demoted him from major to captain. He was cleared of three separate charges of trying to cover up the apparent beating of another Afghan prisoner. David Wroe