Criminal gets summoned back to court after Facebook post

A drug dealer from the UK is having his suspended sentence reviewed after writing a derogatory comment about his court judge on a PUBLIC Facebook status update.

Daniel Sledden does not have very good privacy settings applied to his Facebook account. It appears that many of his status updates are set to public, meaning anyone can see them.

This generally isn’t a good idea, especially for a drug dealer who you’d think didn’t want anyone prying into his affairs. Sledden, 27, was arrested for dealing cannabis and was recently given a suspended sentence by Judge Beverley Lunt after pleading guilty.

However Sledden quickly proceeded to pen a rather offensive Facebook post about Judge Lunt, which he posted from his account with the public privacy setting applied.

Cannot beat my luck 2 year suspended sentance beats the 3 year jail yes pal !!!!! Beverly Lunt go suck my **** [sic]

Sledden didn’t include the stars, if you’re wondering.

Given that anyone could see the status, it wasn’t long before it came to the attention of the judge, who duly summoned Sledden back to court to have his suspended sentence reviewed.

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Unsurprisingly, the offending post has been removed. At the time of writing, the most recent post from Sledden’s account is an apology to Judge Lunt, written no doubt on the advice of his solicitor.

I want to say how sorry I am for what I wrote about Judge Lunt and my sentence. I was very lucky not to be sent to prison and I was very stupid to have written what I did. I want to say sorry to Judge Lunt and to anyone else who was upset or offended by my thoughtless post which I did not mean.

UPDATE: Despite the apology, Sledden’s two year suspended sentence turned into a two year custodial sentence for his social media antics. That is two years he is now spending in jail thanks to what he wrote on social media.

Why criminals (and others) around the world have such a hard time getting to grips with social media privacy is beyond us. We would think that for people who especially don’t want others prying into their private activities, privacy online would be quite important. But alas, some don’t appear to care, much to their own detriment.

Sledden also has his place of work, education history and an array of other personal information all publicly available. Accessible to anyone who cares. A potential goldmine to other criminals who deal in the currency of identity fraud rather than cannabis.

Maybe he’ll learn. But probably not.

Do you remember the guy who was snapped in a Facebook photo wearing the same clothes he had just committed a brutal robbery in? Or the guy who took a selfie of himself and his cannabis plant from his own jail cell?