Guy jailed for 5 years in the UK for nothing in particular

[Richard Hakluyt]

I'm interested in the board's opinions on this story :

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-21090488

[CountDeMoney]

Nice to see you could serve time in the UK for downloading stuff from the old ogrish.com website.

[Valmy]

Wait so he is being sent to prison for trolling online? 

"While Slee may not have been planning any sort of attack, he could easily have influenced someone else with the propaganda he was uploading."

Seriously? 

This is a spoof right?

[CountDeMoney]

Judge Anthony Russell QC said: "It beggars belief that anyone can have an interest in such material which reveals a shocking and barbaric depravity and complete absence of any degree of humanity.

"There is no doubt that this and the other videos have been created in order to encourage people to rally to the terrorist cause, however difficult it is to comprehend that such material would have that result except for the most perverted of minds."

Guilty of: BAD TASTE

[Richard Hakluyt]

Yeah, the guy is being sent down for 5 years for having bad taste and being an utter wanker, the mind boggles.

He actually has the same MP as me, I think I'm going to have to put pen to paper and give Mark Hendrick MP the benefit of my opinion on this case.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Euros at work.

[mongers]

Yeah, the guy is being sent down for 5 years for having bad taste and being an utter wanker, the mind boggles.

He actually has the same MP as me, I think I'm going to have to put pen to paper and give Mark Hendrick MP the benefit of my opinion on this case.

A rather astonish case.

[Josquius]

Really disagree with the recent trend for giving people big sentences for being wankers.
I could definitely see a case for some fines, community service, etc.... for such stuff but 5 years? Madness.

[Syt]

Really disagree with the recent trend for giving people big sentences for being wankers.

Yeah, you can't just jail the majority of the population. Will this decision go to appeals?

[Syt]

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/425622/20130118/craig-slee-terrorism-uploading-facebook-beheadings-taliban.htm says:

Craig Slee, 32, of Preston, was jailed at Preston Crown Court for five years for four offences under the 2006 Terrorism Act, including encouraging terrorism and dissemination of terrorist publications.

If this follows the letter of the law: overkill much?

[The Brain]

I love England but when it comes to law it's so weird.

[Viking]

I'm interested in the board's opinions on this story :

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-21090488

I can understand an argument for putting him in a mental institution, but free speech allows us to be stupid.

[Martinus]

Euros at work.

Not Euros. Brits.

[Martinus]

I love England but when it comes to law it's so weird.

Yeah I think it gets the worst of two worlds - very harsh (from the European perspective) sentencing for crimes characteristic for the Anglosaxon system, and somewhat illiberal (from the American perspective) laws characteristic for the European system.

[Martinus]

I'm interested in the board's opinions on this story :

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-21090488

I can understand an argument for putting him in a mental institution, but free speech allows us to be stupid.

Britain doesn't have (and never really had) free speech. I think it is one of the most common misconceptions about the legal system there.