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The BlackBerry typo that landed a man in jail
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Sep 29, 2012 09:36am |
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| Category | Oops |
| Author | Barry Collins |
| News Date | Friday, September 28, 2012 06:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | It concerns the case of 24-year-old swimming coach, Craig Evans, who was this week freed on appeal from an 18-month jail sentence for seemingly doing nothing more than accidentally sending an intimate text message to his entire address book.
Evans intended to send the message to his girlfriend, in which he reportedly asked her to have sex with him “skin on skin”, and asking whether she would prefer it to be “fast or slow”. Nothing particularly explicit, although certainly not a message you’d want children to see.
Unfortunately, that’s just what happened, because somehow Evans managed to send the message to all the people in his BlackBerry Messenger address book, including two girls aged 13 and 14 who were in his swimming class. He was subsequently arrested and charged with “causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity”, and – incredibly – jailed for 18 months at Birmingham Crown Court in July. |
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