A group of YouTube pranksters are learning the hard way that actions have consequences as the London Magistrate’s Court has sentenced them to jail for their shenanigans.
The individuals involved are part of the controversial Trollstation YouTube channel, a channel that has built a reputation for filming staged pranks around the city. As of the time of writing, the channel has almost 720k subscribers.
Back in July of 2015, members of Trollstation were involved in a fake robbery at London’s National Portrait Gallery as well as a fake kidnapping at Tate Britain. Four people who were involved in both the fake robbery and kidnapping were arresting shortly after. A fifth member was arrested back in March following a bomb hoax.
Daniel Jarvis, Helder Gomes, Endrit Ferizolli and Ebenezer Mensah have all 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. Jarvis was sentenced to a total of 20 weeks, Mensah and Gomes were sentence to 18 weeks each, and Ferizolli was sentence to 16 works for their involvement in the National Portrait Gallery prank. All four individuals were also sentenced to eight weeks for the Tate Britain kidnapping prank, which will run concurrently to the initial prank.
As for the fifth individual, Danh Van Le was sentenced to 12 weeks in March for his involvement in the fake robbery in addition to another 24 weeks for a seperate bomb hoax.
Source: BBC