Jolene Bunting must now pay a £750 fine over failing to remove a video of drag queen Cherrie Ontop.
Jolene Bunting, pictured in 2019, is a former independent unionist councillor for Belfast City Council
However, on Friday, judges at Belfast's Court of Appeal ruled the sentence was appropriate and necessary to send out a wider message. In July 2022, Ms Bunting, a former independent unionist councillor, was involved in protests outside the Mac theatre in Belfast.A group calling themselves Parents Against Grooming held banners which read "hands off our children".A video featuring an image of a wolf and a photograph of Mr Cavan later appeared on YouTube, which was viewed 22,000 times.
Ms Bunting, who sat on Belfast City Council, denied specifically targeting Mr Cavan and claimed she was only concerned about safeguarding children. However, Ms Bunting appealed the sentence, claiming it was wrong in law and that it failed to account for the eventual purging of her contempt.