Soldier who was BANNED from Facebook for posting x-rated snaps has social media ban overturned
Brett Day was back in court to ask to be able to use sites like Instagram, Twitter and Facebook during a tour of Afghanistan next year
A SOLDIER banned from using Facebook after sending explicit pictures of a woman was back in court yesterday – to ask to be let back on the site.
Brett Day was barred from apps like Instagram, Twitter and Facebook after admitting posting 20 “sexually explicit” pictures of his victim to her brother-in-law.
Revenge porn squaddie Day was spared jail but was back at court on Tuesday to get his restraining order amended so he could use social media during a tour of Afghanistan next year.
The spurned soldier sent the x-rated pictures through Facebook messenger after he was jilted by his victim, Teesside Magistrates’ Court heard.
It was originally thought Day, 22, was just banned from contacting his victim through social media, but the wording meant he was actually banned from using all social media, reports.
His victim said: “I can’t stop thinking about what he did to me - he has made me so miserable."
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She added: “I think he did this out of spite and malice, and he didn’t like that he couldn’t control what I did.
“But he made me feel upset and he made me feel ashamed.”
Day, from Loftus, North Yorkshire, was handed a suspended sentence after military bosses labelled him a “well liked and hard working soldier”, who is expecting to be posted to Afghanistan next year.
He had a six month jail sentence suspended for 18 months, while also slapped with a three-year restraining order.
But he will be allowed back on social media after a district judge ruled banning him completely from social media was a “disproportionate” punishment.
And his solicitor Sarah Lish added: “We have no issues whatsoever with staying away from the complainant.”
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