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- From: Herald Sun
Former soldier charged over 'hate page'
A former Australian solider has been charged over allegedly threatening a senior officer on Facebook.
- Soldier allegedly threatened army major
- Facebook page encouraged gay violence
- Army Major received several email threats
A 32-year-old former soldier has been charged with creating an anti-gay Facebook hate page and allegedly threatening a senior officer.
According to NSW Police the ex-Digger created the homophobic page under the pseudonym "Steve Austin" and sent several threatening emails to an Army Major.The Major was also alerted to the hate page by his tormentor.
"It is your right to know who is biting the pillow. If you know any more bum bandits getting around in the ADF, shoot me an email," the page said.
Earlier this year it emerged that Major Paul Morgan had found his name and four others, including two men from the 2nd Commando Regiment, listed as gay soldiers on the site that had 77 members.
The Army psychologist and Iraq war veteran had received a number of threatening emails from "Steve Austin".
"If I find you Paul in the wrong place at the wrong time I will break every bone in your homosexual body."
He also had a note pushed under his front door with a skull and cross bones that read "all fags out now".
During an investigation NSW Police detectives from Surry Hills Local Area Command came across a page on Facebook which allegedly encouraged violence towards homosexuals.
The 32-year-old from Kareela in the Sutherland Shire south of Sydney was arrested at 8am yesterday at Surry Hills Police Station.
He was later charged with one count of use carriage service to threaten, relating to the threats against the Major, and one count of use carriage service to menace, harass or cause offence, relating to the alleged creation of the Facebook group.
The latter is the same charge faced by two ADFA cadets at the centre of the so-called skype-sex scandal.
The ex-soldier was granted conditional bail to appear at Downing Centre Local Court on June 3, 2011.
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