Hinch told reporters today that his decision to go to jail was not based on the amount of the $100,000 fine.
“While I believe it’s the biggest personal fine ever, my decision is not about the money at all,” he told the Herald Sun.
“I couldn’t care less about that. It’s the principle of the matter.”
He allegedly wanted to send a message that the judiciary was out of touch with community expectations.
He has previous served jail time with 12 days’ in the mid-1980s for naming the notorious Michael Glennon as a pedophile priest while Glennon was awaiting trial.
Then in 2011, Hinch was sentenced to five months’ home detention for naming two sex offenders, in breach of court orders.
At the time Hinch had received a lot of publicity over his liver transplant only two weeks before he was handed the home detention.
He is full recovered now and his 70th birthday will fall during the jail term.
So what do you think about this? Do you think Hinch should have just paid the fine? Or do you think he is rightly proving a point?
