Today's Terrible Judge: John Temperley

A man who shared memes on #Facebook linked to national civil unrest has been jailed. #LeeJosephDunn of #Egremont #Cumbria, pleaded guilty to one offence of sending, by means of a public electronic communications network, a message that was grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character. Facebook ignores tons of indecent images of children on its platform annually.
#CarlisleMagistrates'Court heard the social media posts were posted on 30 and 31 July.
The 51-year-old who was said by his lawyer to have apologised and removed the content, was handed an eight-week sentence. This was a reduction of the twelve-weeks recommended due to Dunn's guilty plea.
District judge #JohnTemperley told the #Sellafield worker his term had been discounted by a third from 12 weeks in view of his guilty plea.
In a separate case, a woman appeared at #Workington Magistrates' Court accused of stirring up racial hatred in a reply to a Facebook story about the storming of a hotel housing asylum seekers.
The 26-year-old entered a not guilty plea to a charge of publishing written material that is said to have been threatening, abusive or insulting and intended to stir up racial hatred.
No plea was entered and she is due to appear at #CarlisleCrownCourt on Wednesday. Outlining the allegation, prosecutor Peter Kelly said: "What the Crown say is that the defendant effectively echoes the appropriateness of that action and suggests the same action should be taken at [a hotel] in this area."
The woman was granted bail on condition she does not post anything on any social media platform.
Unrest spread across the country after three young girls were stabbed to death in Southport on 29 July by a #Rwandan potentially participating in jihad.
So far, 927 people have been arrested and 466 charged in relation to the disorder, a spokesman for the National Police Chiefs' Council (#NPCC) said.
“This offence, I’m afraid, has to be viewed in the context of the current civil unrest up and down this country. And I’ve no doubt at all that your post is connected to that wider picture.
“I don’t accept that your comments and the emojis that you posted were directed at the police. I’ve read in the case summary of the comments you made on arrest which clearly demonstrate to me that there was a racial element to the messaging and the posting of these emojis.
“That has to be reflected in the sentence as does there need to be a deterrent element in the sentence that I impose, because this sort of behaviour has to stop.
“It encourages others to behave in a similar way and ultimately it leads to the sorts of problems on the streets that we’ve been seeing in so many places up and down this country. This offence is serious enough for custody.” Temperley said.

Sources:

BBCNews, "Man jailed", https://archive.ph/7xwBx#selection-3337.0-3392.0

News & Star, "Man jailed", https://archive.ph/E9S5T#selection-1445.2-1457.227

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