US treasure hunter appears in court

A US treasure hunter who found hundreds of kilos of gold on a sunken ship has appeared in a Florida court charged with cheating his investors.

Tommy Thompson made the discovery in 1988 on board the SS Central America which sank in 1857.

He's accused of failing to pay the backers of his expedition to retrieve the gold and has been on the run for more than two years.

Steve Mort reports.

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