SD v Caden 2025 Crim 171

SD v Caden [2025] Crim 171

Date of judgment	12th December 2025
Judge	Judge Ferris
Charges	1 count of Making a False Report
Verdict	Guilty on all charges (guilty plea)
Sentence	A ban of 1 week
Applicable persuasive precedent

JUDGMENT by Judge Ferris

Summary of Facts

[1] The defendant sent a message stating “Ok I will, but in all serious, ping @SDBI next time for unserious things, us SBDI only for important issues”; resulting in a SDBI ping.

Summary of Arguments

[2] The prosecution alleges the aggravating factor of intent as the defendant told people to ping law enforcement for unserious things after being pinged as SBDI.

[3] The defense argues that they never had the intent to report anything and it was in jest.

Verdict

[4] While intent does serve as an aggravating factor, the message also clearly shows jest which qualifies as a partial defense under SD v Mr_Cynical6 [2019] Crim 6.

[5] Given the aggravating and mitigating factors counteract each other, I sentence the defendant to the minimum sentence of a 1 week ban.