Aussie shock jock who named paedophiles faces jail

Australian shock jock Derryn Hinch is facing five years in prison for breaching suppression orders.

But he says he has no regrets about publicly naming two paedophiles.

The 67-year-old will now be sentenced in the magistrates court on five charges after losing a High Court challenge against a Victorian law that allows judges to forbid the naming of child sex offenders.

Even if he did receive the maximum sentence, cancer-stricken Hinch says he won't live to serve it out.

The Newstalk ZB correspondent says he might not survive to Christmas, unless he receives a transplant.

The charges arose from a speech Hinch made at a victims of crime rally on the steps of the Victorian parliament in 2008 and from articles he posted on his website.

- Newstalk ZB

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