A Queenslander convicted of publishing child porn images on the social network has won an appeal against his 12 month jail sentence.Bradley Paul Hampson, 29, who posted disturbing messages on tribute pages of two murdered Queensland children including “Woot I’m Dead”and “Had It Coming,” will now be free by September after having his sentence reduced to 6 months, Brisbane Court of Appeal ruled today.
The self confessed troll will be on probation for a further two years, reports Fairfax media.
Hampson, acting under a pseudonym of ‘Dale Angerer,’ was convicted of ‘internet trolling’ by the Court and sentenced on March 25 to a three year jail term by Judge Kerry O’Brien, who ordered his release after a year. Hampson’s lawyers argued the sentence was excessive.
Trolling refers to a practice which refers to posting inflammatory or extraneous material online.
The deceased minors were a 12 year old boy who was stabbed in a Brisbane school and a 9 year old girl abducted and murdered in February 2010 and posted images of one victim with a penis drawn near their mouth.
When police raided his home earlier this year they found more than 200 images of children including those of missing Briton Madeline McCann and child murder victim Jamie Bulger with similar superimposed images loaded onto his PC at his Tarragindi home.
