Judge gets his own back on thug who bragged on Facebook about swerving jail
David Newlands boasted on social media about keeping his freedom over a savage street attack in Glasgow
A JUDGE who was taunted online by a thug for twice sparing him prison told him as he was finally caged: “I’m laughing out loud."
Norman Ritchie got his own back on David Newlands as he revealed handing down the jail term brightened up his day.
He delivered the slap after 24-year-old Newlands bragged on Facebook about keeping his freedom over a savage street attack in Glasgow.
The lawman added at the High Court in the city: “It’s always interesting to see a different view on sentencing as in ‘I’m out bro, easy.’
“As they say, LOL.”
Judge Ritchie originally ordered the brute to do 150 hours of unpaid work for battering Ivor Miller, 27 — but he failed to show up.
After being hauled back before the lawman and handed a second chance to comply, the waster bragged to about being let off on Facebook.
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Posting in broad Scots dialect he wrote: “People wonder y this country is f****d?
“A got a high court conviction n they never sent me to jail. Instead gave me a community order.
“Told them to stick it up ther (sic) pipe so got sent back to court n what do they dae?
“The judge says ‘Mr Newlands I would refer to you as an idiot’..n then what does he dae? He geez me it again.
“F**k c.s (community service) n f**k probation am no dayn it simple!!! F**k the polis!!!”
But Newman’s taunts were spotted by social workers preparing reports on him and brought to the law chief’s attention.
Judge Ritchie ordered the lout, who is serving an eight-month stretch for assault and breach of the peace, to do an extra nine months.
He told Newlands, who admitted breaching the order: “I gave you two chances.
“I hope you don’t think I’m doing this out of anger — in truth it enlivened what was a dull day.”
Defence solicitor John McElroy said Newlands, who also posted a Facebook pic posing with stricken Rangers idol Fernando Ricksen was drunk when he made the jibes.
He said: “When he last appeared in my lord’s court you quite correctly told him he was an idiot.
“He then became not just an idiot, but an idiot who drank and wrote on Facebook.”
Newlands, of Maryhill, Glasgow, was previously nailed for punching Mr Miller, 27, in Glasgow last year.
He was part of a gang who wrongly branded the victim a “beast” and chased him through the city centre until he threw himself 25ft from a flat window.
Mr Miller tried to hide in two pubs before suffering serious injuries leaping from the second floor.
Newlands was one of eight tormentors convicted over the horror last December.
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