and why would they put him at risk of a prison term when the only real evidence of intent (we're aware of) is their admission of guilt?
Why would you? they're reporting on a judgement, not asking you to make one. They make it emotional so they get more viewers/readers, the more involved you are the more you'll follow the story, but you aren't actually being asked to make a decision and as such don't have access to all the evidence which the jury will do. If there was nothing to justify the conviction and the term of the sentence then the appeal would have been overturned. I'm not sure why you're so insistent that this was essentially just a joke facebook event, when as I've pointed out there was sufficient evidence for the CPS to acheive a substantial jail term compared to other facebook events which were merely deleted. You may not have access to all the facts, but it is obvious that more exist.
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