The person using the alias Bat man was more after revenge than justice for his city when he released a copy of a taped police interview from Wangaratta.
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The recording showed police questioning a Wangaratta man over burglary offences, linked to a multi-million drug ring investigation.
Exactly how Leslie Cassidy, 32, got his hands on the recording was a mystery.
But three months after the interview, he uploaded a copy to YouTube under the name Bat man in three parts, titled “give up dog”.
The recording went missing after the Wangaratta man was transferred between Melbourne Remand Centre, Melbourne Assessment Prison and Port Phillip Prison.
“Police have executed search warrants at all the above in an attempt to isolate the date and time when the suspect copy went missing,” court documents stated.
“Police are still waiting for a result from these searches.”
Cassidy appeared in Wangaratta Magistrates’ Court to plead guilty to publishing a recording, but avoided going to jail himself.
Magistrate Stella Stuthridge sentenced him to an 18-month community corrections order with the condition to complete 300 hours of unpaid work or other rehabilitation programs.
Investigators went to great lengths to identify Cassidy.
The YouTube account was linked to the email and mobile phone of an East Albury woman, who had previously reported her purse stolen.
Police finally tracked the IP address used with the YouTube account to Cassidy.
They raided his Wangaratta home on September 27 and found one to two grams of cannabis, the East Albury woman’s driver’s licence and a double-barrel shotgun.
The partner of the man in the recordings was threatened after recordings were viewed on YouTube more than 1000 times.
