Jonathan Moylan avoids jail term for fake ANZ media release about Whitehaven Coal

By Louise Hall
Updated July 26 2014 - 1:08am, first published 12:25am
Jonathan Moylan (centre) arrives for sentencing at the NSW Supreme Court on Friday. Photo: Ben Rushton - Getty Images
Jonathan Moylan (centre) arrives for sentencing at the NSW Supreme Court on Friday. Photo: Ben Rushton - Getty Images

An anti-coal campaigner who sent out a fake ANZ media release causing a $314 million slump in the sharemarket value of Whitehaven Coal has been sentenced to one year and eight months jail but will be immediately released.

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