A HEREFORDSHIRE man has been handed unpaid work after causing nasty messages to be sent on Facebook.
William Harmon appeared before magistrates in Hereford for sentencing in February after he was convicted of one count of causing an offensive, indecent, obscene, or menacing nature to be sent by public communication network and one count of possessing a controlled drug at an earlier hearing.
The court heard from prosecutor Melanie Winterflood that the 35-year-old had caused grossly offensive, indecent, obscene, or menacing Facebook messages to be sent in Herefordshire between May 27 and June 13.
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He had also been caught in possession of a quantity of controlled class B drug amphetamine in Hereford on June 17.
Harmon, of Monkhide, Herefordshire, was handed a two-year community order with 100 hours of unpaid work and ordered to complete a drug rehabilitation programme, while the drugs were ordered to be forfeited and destroyed.
He was also ordered to pay prosecution costs of £185 and a £95 victim surcharge.
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