4 Months Jail for 'Offensive' T-Shirt

Yes it's a stupid t shirt to wear and clearly just to provoke this kind of reaction. But why is it up to some higher up to deem what is and isn't offensive?

I could probably be jailed for half the **** i say on various facebook groups/chats, skype convos etc etc when you consider some of the rulings lately.
 
Bloke is an idiot.

You don't do something like that with a 12 month suspended sentence for drugs offences hanging over your head and expect to get away with it!
 
dont agree with the guys t shirt at all but if people are no longer allowed to be idiots then they better get sentencing the millions of others out there
 
A complete idiot.
The way its going though, best not to do anything to even remotely 'offend' anyone, either online or IRL...
 
Overreaction much?

I've seen people wear t-shirts with trollface.jpg printed on it out in the wild.

Defendant's sentence should have been along the lines of community payback tbh. Perhaps 80 hours (2 weeks).
 
He was probably jailed for the sheer stupidity of wearing that alone.

I'm guessing it comes under the Public Order Act or something similar and that combined with his suspended sentence = Jail time?
 
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Craterloads said:
It's his free opinion, you can’t jail people because they disagree with you. Completely bonkers sentence.
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So where do you draw the line between 'free speech' and 'incitement to hatred'?

I'm all for free speech, but you can't go around insulting everybody just because of some ill-perceived 'right' to do so. The guy was parading around in a T-shirt designed to provoke a reaction - he got one and pleaded guilty to a public order offence.

I'm not saying that the laws are perfect, but I cannot understand what defensible position there is for what this cretin has done.
 
Craterloads said:
It's his free opinion, you can’t jail people because they disagree with you. Completely bonkers sentence.
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So if I walked about with a t-shirt on the same day your wife/child died saying "Good news, Craterload's kid just snuffed it, Brilliant!" then you would be ok with me getting a slap on the wrists?
 
Jokester said:
Who did he incite and if it was so serious, why are the BBC repeating it?
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Either the public of Manchester where he was walking about or passing cops who, contrary to popular belief by public and defence solicitors, ARE legally protected when it comes to Public Order or Breach of the Peace offences....
 
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