WTF? Heard Of Mens Rea?

PUBLISHED: 18:05, 27 September 2012 | UPDATED: 00:33, 28 September 2012

The man who sent sex text in error to ALL his contacts... and ended up in prison

"CE, 24, had been jailed for 18 months for inciting a child to engage in sexual activity

Freed after judges hear the messages went out to all his contacts including members of his own family

Tripped up by technology: CE who accidentally sent a sex text to all his contacts and ended up in jail

CE must have thought things couldn’t get any worse after he accidentally sent a saucy text message intended for a lover to every contact in his phonebook.

How wrong he was!"

"He added: ‘The fact that they were repeated shows that he was evidently misguided in the use of his BlackBerry.

‘It is difficult to conclude that he was targeting anyone.

‘There were a number of mitigating factors in this case.’

The judge, sitting with Mr Justice Coulson and Mrs Justice Thirlwall, added that the sentence, which he also reduced to nine months, would be suspended ‘given the unusual circumstances’ and freed [sic] E."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2209553/Swimming-teacher-sent-sex-texts-person-contact-list-didnt-know-use-new-phone.html#ixzz27j5aFIOH
 
The BlackBerry typo that landed a man in jail 

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2012/09/28/the-blackberry-typo-that-landed-a-man-in-jail/#ixzz27vaPwOpq