Several well-known “YouTube pranksters” will now face jail time for some of the acts published to their channel.<\/p>\n
Daniel Jarvis, 27, Helder Gomes, 23, Endrit Ferizolli, 20, and Ebenezer Mensah, 29 were sentenced <\/a><\/strong>on Monday at the City of London Magistrate’s Court.<\/p>\n The four are responsible for the Trollstation channel, “a channel specialising in bizarre and often surreal pranks performed on unwitting members of the public”.<\/p>\n Subscriber counts for the channel have shot up by nearly 3,000 viewers (from 718,000 to 720,500) since news of the prankster’s arrest.<\/p>\n “All four pleaded guilty to two counts of using threatening, abusive, or insulting words or behaviour with intent to cause fear of, or provoke unlawful violence for their involvement in the two hoaxes.<\/p>\n For the charge at the National Portrait Gallery, Mr Jarvis was sentenced to 20 weeks, Mr Mensah and Mr Gomes to 18 weeks each, and Mr Ferizolli to 16 weeks. All four were also sentenced to eight weeks for the fake kidnapping at Tate Britain, to run concurrently said the BBC<\/a><\/strong>.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n ADSL gaming traffic growth in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Massive Xbox Live price increase in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n
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