A man who admitted to posting “despicable” comments about missing five-year-old April Jones on his Facebook page has beenĀ jailed for 12 weeks. Matthew Woods appeared at Chorley Magistrates’ Court today, where he pleaded guilty to “sending by means of a public electronic communications network a message or other matter that is grossly offensive” (section 127 (1) a of the Communications Act 2003). Woods’ comments, which included some of a sexually explicit nature about the youngster who went missing last week, were deemedĀ so “abhorrent” that they deserved the longest sentence that could be passed, less a third to account for Woods’ early guilty plea.
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Man jailed for “despicable” comments about missing April Jones
A man who admitted to posting “despicable” comments about missing five-year-old April Jones on his Facebook page has beenĀ jailed for 12 weeks. Matthew Woods appeared at Chorley Magistrates’ Court today, where he pleaded guilty to “sending by means of a public electronic communications network a message or other matter that is grossly offensive” (section 127 […]
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