The court found the two men guilty, because of the missing of special preparations to operate 2 helicopters in limited airspace and landing area. In the company FOM the accident ops was not correct described, the pilots don't talked pre-flight and inflight enough with each other and don't keeped the other helicopter in sight. The chief pilot was found guilty because of lacked security advices and rules in his flight ops. The owner of the helicopter company was acquitted. Rumours said the owner was making a lot of pressure to his pilots.
May be thats the "new" line of justice, and the JAR-OPS is behind the court. The postholders and the pilots taking the full responsibility for any problems in flight ops, not the owner. If the other pilot would be alive, the sentence could be the same i believe. 7 tourists died in the accident.
I'm not shure if the mass of pilots is clear in their mind about their responsibility. Sadly to say, that the accident ist nearly the same as some other. Mid-air of two ships on the final to the same landing site is a sadly series. And the deficiencies are mostly the same.