SBS employee sentenced over drunken Facebook threat to 'kill police for Allah'

Nicholas Rabone Hogan's lawyer says post was 'ill-advised' satire but magistrate says it was 'reckless and irresponsible' and gives two-year good behaviour bond

An SBS employee who drunkenly posted a threat to murder police in the name of Allah has been given a two-year good behaviour bond in a Sydney court.

Nicholas Rabone Hogan, 32, posted the threat to Facebook just hours after the funeral of the murdered NSW police accountant Curtis Cheng on 16 October, Newtown local court heard during sentencing on Tuesday.