A judge who used a pseudonym to troll people in the comments section of a news website has been sacked.
Worse still, Jason Dunn-Shaw was found to have posted abuse on stories about cases in which he was directly involved.
The British judge, who sat at Canterbury Crown Court in Kent, took to the website KentOnline and called other commenters “donkeys” and “stupid”, as well as describing them as “narrow-minded and bigoted”.
When his cover was blown, Dunn-Shaw tried to blame his partner for the comments, saying they shared an account.
Dunn-Shaw was presiding over the case of a woman who avoided jail after causing a car accident that left two people in a burning vehicle.
After people attacked his decision, the judge took to the comments with the username Querelle and took aim at his critics, the BBC reports.
“Are you too stupid to make a sensible comment?” one of his taunts read.
He also posted justifications for the ruling, despite judges being strongly discouraged from commenting publicly about their cases.
In a second trolling incident, Dunn-Shaw used his online persona to defend the outcome of a case in which he was a barrister defending people accused of defrauding an elderly woman, KentOnline said.
His comments included intricate details of the case and complained “lots of warty fingers at work here”.
The victim’s son read the interactions and became suspicious and made a complaint.
This article was originally published in news.com.au
