Elon Musk didn't malign a British jumper who helped in a year ago's Thai cavern salvage by considering him a "pedo fellow" in a tweet, a US jury has found.

Vernon Unsworth was looking for $190m (£145m) in harms from the Tesla organizer, over the tweet sent a year ago.

An open line broke out between the two over the salvage of 12 young men caught in a Thai collapse June 2018.

Extremely rich person Mr Musk told the court this week the expression "pedo fellow" was regular in South Africa, where he grew up.

Mr Unsworth, an accomplished 64-year-old cavern adventurer, parts his time between the UK and Thailand. During the salvage, which caught the world's consideration, he helped enlist master cavern jumpers who were instrumental in liberating the young men securely.

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Mr Musk sent Tesla engineers and a little submarine to help with the Thai salvage exertion, yet the vessel was rarely utilized.

Rather, he and Mr Unsworth got into an open war of words after the jumper marked the idea of help a "PR stunt".

During a meeting with CNN, he recommended the extremely rich person "stick his submarine where it harms".

Mr Musk, who has 22 million devotees, reacted with a progression of tweets about Mr Unsworth - including the one calling him "pedo fellow". It was later erased.