Fiji jails Aussie tourist for 'disgusting' sexual act

A Fiji court has jailed an Australian tourist for two years for what the judge called a "shameful" and "disgusting" homosexual act.

Retired university lecturer Thomas Maxwell McCoskar, 55, and a Fiji man had pleaded guilty to having sex in Nadi over the Easter period and asked the court for leniency, the Fiji Times reported.

Gay sex is illegal in Fiji and carries a jail sentence of up to 14 years.

In sentencing the pair yesterday, Magistrate Syed Muhktar Shah said the crimes committed by McCoskar, from Victoria, and Dhirendra Nandan, 23, were "something so disgusting that it would make any person vomit".

Shah said McCoskar's actions bordered on paedophilia.