Facebook posts mocking judge earn brothers two years in jail

Daniel Sleddon and brother Samuel. (credit: Lancashire Police)

Two British brothers convicted of selling marijuana are being sent to prison for two years after they mocked the judge on Facebook immediately after their court appearance. The judge had handed them two-year suspend sentences. The brothers, from Accrington, showed remorse when they appeared for sentencing earlier this month, but they sang a different tune on Facebook.

About an hour after a Burnley Crown Court judge issued the suspended sentences, one of the brothers, Daniel Sledden, 27, took to Facebook telling judge Beverley Lunt to suck his you-know-what. Younger brother Samuel, 22, wrote Lunt on Facebook "up ur ass aha nice 2year suspended," according to Sky News.

The elder brother apologized on Facebook, to no avail. "I want to say how sorry I am for what I wrote about Judge Lunt and my sentence," he wrote.

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