Man jailed for not 'liking' friend's baby photo

A MAN has been jailed for 12 weeks for not 'liking' a photo of his friend's baby within 24 hours of it being posted on Facebook.

Darrell Lucas, 23, from Corby in Northamptonshire, told magistrates he had been unable to access the social networking site because he had been in hospital having a cancerous tumour removed from his lung.

But his excuse was rejected by the panel sitting at Corby Magistrates' Court. William Lawrence, Chairman of the Bench, told Lucas: “Your lamentable failure to 'like' what was clearly a very cute picture of your friend's baby within the mandatory 24-hour cut-off period can only meet with a custodial sentence.”