The husband of a grandmother jailed for more than a year for posting on Facebook mosques should be blown up has said the sentence is ‘well over the top’.
David Sweeney, 76, believes his wife Julie, 53, did not deserve to be locked up for her post in the aftermath of the Southport stabbings which were followed by rioting.
COURT STATEMENT
At her sentencing at Chester Crown Court, Judge Steven Everett branded her a ‘keyboard warrior’ adding ‘even people like you need to go to prison.’
The court heard she was led a ‘quiet, sheltered life’ but became angry when watching the news and hearing of the knife attack.
Mr Sweeney, who used to work as an RAF supplier, argued the jailing his wife for 15 months was too harsh.
He said: ‘It is completely out of proportion, it’s just ridiculous.’
WHAT HE SAID
Speaking to the Telegraph, he added: ‘Three police cars turned up, there were three officers. What’s that about? It’s too big a force for what it was. It’s just crazy.
‘It’s a big loss, she’s my right arm. It does anger you, it’s over the top, well over the top. It’s difficult, it’s hard to come to terms.
‘She just got angry on the night because we watched a news item with her… it just wound her up because of what had happened to the three girls.’
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THE SOUTHPORT STABBINGS
Following the Southport stabbings in which three young girls were killed, Sweeney posted in the Facebook group in Kidsgrove: ‘It is absolutely ridiculous. Don’t protect the mosques. Blow the mosques up with the adults in it.’
Prosecutor Sarah Badrawy explained the post was reported to the police after one of the group’s 5,100 members found it distressing.
Mr Sweeney said he tried to delete his wife’s post but was unable to work out how to do so, and later it was taken down by Facebook.
