Internet troll sentenced to 18 weeks in jail.

[Edrof]

Punishment, yes. Prison, no. Why is prison the answer to everything? The criminal justice system is failing - just look at re-offending rates. He's obviously a social retard with a possible personality disorder. Guys like this need re-educating not to be locked in a cell for 23 hours a day for 2 months.

I disagree about prison as I don't think a fine (that he can't pay) and some community service cuts it, but I do agree with you that our current prison system is out-dated, counter-productive and needs a major overhaul.

 

[Cosimo]

Once more, the police hating criminal defenders on here disgust me.

Do you mean the liberal, trendy internet, druggy loving hippies?

 

[FARGO]

What about posting dubious jokes from sickipedia as a status update on Facebook - would that count as illegal?

 

[Efour]

18 weeks? lol? Is this the left overs of the London Riots Justice that all petty criminals and social annoyances will be treated heavy handed for the next few months until all the judges and county courts take the black cloth off their heads?

I suspect its more a money making exercise by lawyers and solicitor firms so they can open the floodgates and earn a packet on similar cases.

 

[Vonhelmet]

What about posting dubious jokes from sickipedia as a status update on Facebook - would that count as illegal?

Probably not, because you aren't directly targetting a specific person.

Honestly, I despair at how some of you people must think if you can't spot the difference in things like this.

 

[gillywibble]

He actually looks like a troll as well.

 

[CaptainRAVE]

Prison seems a little OTT to me.

 

[LeJosh]

Prison seems a little OTT to me.

Why?

 

[div0]

What about posting dubious jokes from sickipedia as a status update on Facebook - would that count as illegal?

No, not unless you're specifically targeting them at the family, so as to knowingly cause them distress.

Posting a distasteful joke on some random internet forum, or somewhere, where it is unlikely to cause undue offence is not a crime.

Posting messages directly to a grieving family, or to trash a memorial page, where your comments can be nothing, other than incredibly hurtful, is a totally different scenario.

Telling a joke in the playground isn't going to get you arrested. Vandalising a gravestone with the same joke, may well do - especially if you repeatedly target people in this sort of manner. How is this any different?

Probably not, because you aren't directly targetting a specific person.

Honestly, I despair at how some of you people must think if you can't spot the difference in things like this.

Exactly. It's amazing that people seem to completely lose the ability to think rationally about stuff when it relates to 'the internet'. It's almost like some people think the internet is completely detached from real life and so anything goes.

 

[Al Vallario]

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[FARGO]

Probably not, because you aren't directly targetting a specific person.

Honestly, I despair at how some of you people must think if you can't spot the difference in things like this.

Thanks for the answer.

 

[edscdk]

Why?

at the end of the day he only posted comments on web sites... as sick as I think it was, and I'd love to give him a dam good kicking on behalf of the famalies...

my biggest concern is he is probably totally mental and will move onto stalking, rape, murder....

 

[Al Vallario]

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[Vonhelmet]

at the end of the day he only posted comments on web sites... as sick as I think it was, and I'd love to give him a dam good kicking on behalf of the famalies...

my biggest concern is he is probably totally mental and will move onto stalking, rape, murder....

Well, that seems like the rational conclusion to draw. You should become a judge.

 

[Vonhelmet]

Vandalising a gravestone constitutes criminal damage. Posting a message on a Facebook memorial page does not.

Indeed, which is why it is instead charged as malicious communications or possibly harassment, because it's different.

 

[Gerard]

Why do all these people always say they have aspergers.

Its like the worlds greatest excuse for everything atm

I just hacked the fbi BUT it was cause I had aspergers

I killed someone who annoyed me BUT it was due to my aspergers

I hacked into SONY network BUT it was cause off my aspergers

I have lots of xxxxx porn BUT its cause I have aspergers

Just another Bandwagon to jump onto, remember a while back Celebrities were literally coming out of the woodwork claiming to be Dyslexic.

 

[div0]

Vandalising a gravestone constitutes criminal damage. Posting a message on a Facebook memorial page does not.

But it does contravene the Malicious Communications Act, hence the reason he got a jail sentence.

While they are obviously not identical crimes, which therefore don't fall under identical laws. I think you get the point being made.

 

[Al Vallario]

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[Vonhelmet]

You were attempting to make an appeal to emotion by analogising the criminal damage of a gravestone with posting of malicious messages online, when the two could not be more different. Both actions may result from the same intent, but the actions themselves are wholly different.

The two could be more different. What a silly thing to say. The goal is to offend the bereaved and the means of doing so is vandalising a memorial. That one is physical and one is virtual only means that they result in different offences coming into play when people are charged.

 

[Al Vallario]

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