Brighouse Facebook racist Kalum Dyson avoids prison term

Dec 10 2010 by Sam Casey, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

A FATHER-OF-TWO who set up a racist Facebook group was told he was fortunate to have escaped a jail term.

Kalum Dyson, of Frances Street in Brighouse, created a group called ‘Pakis Die’ on the social networking website.

The 21-year-old also posted messages including one which said: “Help me shoot all the Pakis.”

One of his listed friends, who is believed to have had an Asian boyfriend, complained to police after he sent her an invitation to join the group.

He pleaded guilty to a charge of sending an offensive or indecent, obscene or menacing electronic communication at Calderdale Magistrates’ Court yesterday.

Dyson, who has children aged two years and just five-weeks-old and works as a floor layer, was given a community order.

But chairman of the bench Tim Cole told him the offence was so serious it could have merited a jail term.

“We find this a very serious offence to which a custodial sentence could have been given,” he said.

The court heard Dyson was arrested in July – two months after setting up the group.

Jane Farrar, prosecuting, told the court one of his Facebook friends had reported the matter to the police after he sent her an invite to join.

She said: “She was utterly disgusted by the comments and was deeply offended by it.”

Dyson admitted setting up the site, which Facebook immediately removed, and told officers Muslims “should understand what the British Army was fighting for’’.