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Derryn Hinch arrested

Derryn Hinch has been arrested after failing to pay his $100,000 fine for being in contempt of court.

2012-09-21_1456Derryn Hinch has been arrested by sheriff’s officers after failing to pay his $100,000 fine for being in contempt of court.

Hinch, 69, was escorted from his St Kilda Rd high rise apartment by two officers but was not handcuffed.

The outspoken Seven News broadcaster revealed details of Jill Meagher’s killer, Adrian Ernest Bayley’s past criminal history on his website.

In October he was told if he failed to pay the fine within 90 days he would be jailed for 50 days.

Victorian Supreme Court Justice Stephen Kaye said the former broadcaster’s web posts had been populist and self-serving.

‘‘Your conduct was grossly irresponsible,’’ Justice Kaye told Hinch.

‘‘Although you thought you knew better than Justice Nettle, clearly you did not.’

 

Yesterday he said he did not regret his decision not to pay what he believes is an exorbitant fine.

He also accused Seven of editing his editorial, screened on last night’s Today Tonight.

‘‘I’ll go to jail for 50 days to draw attention to all the suspended sentences for crimes of violence and child pornography, for the obscenely short sentences given to king-hit killers,’’ he said.

Hinch previously served 12 days’ jail in the mid-1980s and was sentenced to five months’ home detention for naming two sex offenders, in breach of court orders, while addressing a public rally in the city.

He had received a much-publicised liver transplant only two weeks before he was handed home detention.

 

Seven has been contacted for comment.

Source: The Age, Herald Sun

6 Responses

  1. Derryn’s obviously a hopeless recidivist (and an egomaniac, but sadly that’s not illegal). As he himself is the first to point out the legal system is too soft on career criminals like him.

    Forget trying to reform him, chuck him in the slammer and throw away the key.

  2. Handcuffing is one of the 3 criteria affirming the validity of an arrest.

    He’s way too desperate for attention going to Today Tonight with his story.

  3. Saw him being handcuffed by a ham-fisted cop. Yeah, he’d really be able to take off down St.Kilda Rd and disappear. Oh, “just following proceedure” I suppose. This whole supression of a crim’s history “in the interests of a fair trial” is ridiculous.

  4. Derryn Hinch is Derryn Hinch, always has been always will be!
    But it is a shame ‘ If’ this crusading martyr has been quoted accurately within the above story, and where he seems to have ignored the plea’s of so many in authority and especially grieving family and friends of the victims of ” those” he is prepared to once again proclaim himself a martyr, this time against the offenders and lenient sentencing of the ” One Punch Killers” and their cowardly use of the ” Cowards Punch “.
    The unfortunate use/quote of ” k— Hit Killers” is exactly the opposite of how most in the the media now describe these cowards actions, and the name change campaign began not long after the senseless death of Thomas Kelly over 12 months ago, either way well before October.
    So lets all stop sensationalising these cowardly acts, that is if you can stop being a sensationalist!

  5. Had the honour of interviewing Derryn just a couple of weeks back. Talks about this case and much more. Hear it at ww.AnAudienceWithThePope.com.au
    Michael Pope

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