Earlier this month we brought you Daniel Sledden’s story, a drug dealer who was handed a two-year suspended sentence at the Burnley Crown Court in the United Kingdom. He pleaded guilty to the offence and walked away with a suspended sentence but he made the grave mistake of abusing the judge in a vulgar post on Facebook. He was summoned back to the court, the judge was obviously not happy, and he has now been sent to prison.
Judge Beverley Lunt had been shown the vulgar Facebook post which read “Cannot believe my luck 2 year suspended sentence beats the 3 year jail yes pal! Beverly Lunt go suck my ****.” Naturally she wasn’t amused.
So Sledden was summoned to the court again and the prison sentence was unsuspended. So previously while he would only have had that sentence on his permanent record, Sledden now has to actually serve two years in prison, all because of one Facebook post.
The judge called the post “boastful and jeering,” and concluded that “the only reasonable inference was they thought they had somehow fooled and misled the court.” She also added that had she known their real feelings at being in court would she have accepted their remorse and contrition and handed down a suspended sentence in the first place?
“Of course not,” she says.
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