WARNING: Distressing images

A Broken Hill farm hand jailed for filming and sharing acts of his own animal cruelty is out of jail after serving two-and-a-half months behind bars.

Jet Jai Johnson, 21, was sentenced to 14 months’ imprisonment in July after pleading guilty to five separate offences of animal cruelty involving native wildlife and livestock, including a kangaroo, a joey and three kid goats.

The disturbing footage was widely circulated on social media.

The videos show Johnson running over an injured kangaroo’s head with his dirt bike and fighting an exhausted kangaroo.

But on Friday, Johnson’s appeal was upheld in the Broken Hill District Court, with Judge Clive Jeffreys reducing his sentence to nine months to be served in the community, the ABC reported.

The court heard

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