Tuesday 25 June 2013

Deryn Hinch/ Contempt of Court/ bloggs twitter etc

So why did it take Victorian police 2 months to serve a writ on Deryn Hinch?????

Was Deryn singled out because of his high profile??? Was all the other people who made comments on twitter etc charged or did the Victorian Police think they would only make an example of him.
Everyone in Australian knew that Bailey was on parole at the time of the murder. It was not Deryn Hinch who exclusively reported this.
Quite obviously Deryn Hinch has upset and exposed corruption in high places and this is their payback!!!!

Broadcaster Derryn Hinch charged with contempt over Adrian Bayley case

Updated Tue Jun 25, 2013 9:13pm AEST

Photo: Derryn Hinch says he will contest the charges (Joe Castro: AAP)

Map: VIC

Broadcaster Derryn Hinch has been charged with contempt of court for breaching suppression orders regarding convicted murderer Adrian Bayley.

In April, Bayley pleaded guilty to raping and killing 29-year-old ABC employee Jill Meagher in Melbourne last year.
Hinch used social media and his official website to speculate about the case.
That drew the ire of Supreme Court justice Geoffrey Nettle, who at the time ordered that Hinch be charged with contempt.
Hinch says those charges were laid on Tuesday.
"The charges cover material from April 5 through April 9 and the papers I was served outside the St Kilda Police Station totalled 201 pages. Call that a writ!" he said in a statement on his website.
"I fervently believe I am not guilty of contempt of court and will contest the case when it comes up in the Supreme Court on July 16.
"At a time when rapists and killers are out on parole it seems to me that the judicial system is out of whack when so much time and energy is spent on trying to make me a whipping boy for social media.
"I agree that Twitter and Facebook were out of control in the lead up to the Jill Meagher trial but I wasn't one of the guilty parties."
Hinch has previously served time in jail and in home detention for breaching suppression orders.
In 2011, he was ordered to serve five months home detention for four contempt charges over the naming of two convicted paedophiles at a public rally and on his website.
In 1987, Hinch spent 12 days in jail and was fined $10,000 for publicly naming a paedophile priest on trial for child sex offences.
A contempt of court charge carries a penalty of up to five years in prison.

Topics: broadcasting, information-and-communication, courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, murder-and-manslaughter, vic, australia

First posted Tue Jun 25, 2013 9:12pm AEST

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