Murdoch pie-thrower gets sentence cut by two weeks
Jonathan May-Bowles, the man who threw a foam pie at Murdoch while he was giving evidence to the Commons Select Committee, has had his jail sentence reduced by two weeks.
May-Bowles pled guilty to the assault last week, and on Tuesday was sentenced to six weeks in prison.
While he failed to get the conviction overturned completely on appeal, he did manage to get a third taken off it.
Judge Anthony Pitts rejected the argument to overturn the sentence completely because the attack was ‘in the tradition of comics’.
He said: “That might be funny or have an element of comedy about it in a different situation.
“But not in this situation. It was intended, it seems to us, to cause fear and it must have caused fear.
“In our judgment, there is an overwhelming inference it caused fear and shock amongst Mr Murdoch, his wife and his son, let alone others in the room who were crying out in shock and disbelief.”