AN online troll who advocated raping feminists on social media has walked free from court, with a magistrate saying there had been a “vast over-reaction” to his posts.

NSW Magistrate William Pierce convicted Zane Alchin, 25, and sentenced him to a 12-month good behaviour bond for posting vile and sexually violent comments on Facebook including: “You know the best thing about a feminist they don’t get any action so when you rape them it feels 100 times tighter”.

“You were not threatening rape,” Mr Pierce told the 25-year-old Sydney labourer.

“There was a vast over-reaction by people including (the victim) who have caused you to experience a great deal of pain which you didn’t deserve,” he said.

Alchin pleaded guilty to a charge of using a carriage service to menace and harass when he trolled a feminist Facebook page and posted 55 offensive comments including: “Do me a favour go home and slap you mother — obviously your father never did it enough”.

He also called a stranger and her friends “f***ing basic sluts”, said “it’s people like you who make it clear women should never have been given rights”, and “I’d rape you if you were better looking”.

His barrister, Sophie Walsh, told the court that Mr Alchin had unfairly become the “poster boy for the most vile trolls that ever existed” for writing the Facebook messages after drinking half a bottle of liquor at 11.30am.

She told the court how he had become a victim of trolling in return, receiving threats of rape and of being castrated with a “dull knife and no pain medication.”

Agreed facts tendered in court reveal Alchin was drunk when he wrote degrading, sexually violent comments to Paloma Brierley-Newtown, 24, and Olivia Melville on a comment thread on a feminist Facebook page on August 25 last year.

The comment thread was in response to the online harassment Ms Melville had received when her Tinder profile was uploaded to Facebook by another person earlier that month.

media_camera Zane Alchin, who lives with his parents, was sentenced to a 12-month good behaviour. Picture: John Grainger media_camera Alchin was convicted of threatening women in a vile post. Picture: John Grainger

The magistrate drew gasps from the courtroom when he described Ms Melville’s Tinder bio as an “inflammatory comment of a sexual nature”.

The Tinder profile attracted online abuse because she included lyrics by Canadian rapper Drake, “Type of girl who will suck you dry and then eat some lunch with you”.

During the heated exchange, Ms Brierley-Newtown told Alchin: “You are actually one of the worst human beings I have ever had to converse with in my life, if you keep threatening me with rape I will go to the police, I have all this screen shotted. You are currently breaking the law”.

Alchin responded: “What law am I breaking? I’m not the one out of the f****** kitchen”.

Ms Brierley-Newtown made a complaint to police at 5.30pm.

Court papers state she told police that the comments made her feel “ambushed, harassed, intimidated, defenceless and caused her a great deal of anxiety,”

Police went to Alchin’s home on October 7 and interviewed him.

“He admitted to having posted the comments however he was drunk at the time and the comments do not represent what he is about,” a statement read.

“He was internet trolling and he was unaware it was a crime.”

When asked about his post threatening to rape feminists he said: “I got it off an anti-feminist website to offend a group of feminists that were harassing me and my friends”.

Outside of court Ms Brierly-Newtown said the result was appropriate but questioned the way the matter was handled by the magistrate.

“The fact that my character was brought into question and the fact he was harassed after the explicit threats that he made towards me and my friends, the fact that was glazed over to worry about him ... it was an absolute slap in the face to women across Australia,” she said.

Ms Brierly-Newtown denied she encouraged others to troll Alchin in return.

Originally published as Online rape threat troll walks free