An activist who threw a foam pie at media tycoon Rupert Murdoch is today appealing the six-week jail sentence he received on Tuesday.

Jonathan May-Bowles, a Mitcham comedian and left-wing blogger who calls himself Jonnie Marbles, admitted attacking the News Corporation chairman in Westminster on July 19.

He will appear at Southwark Crown Court this afternoon, where his solicitor will argue May-Bowles's six-week sentence (for which he will actually serve three with the remainder spent on licence) is excessive.

The 26-year-old, who lives in Love Lane, was slapped by Mr Murdoch's wife Wendi Deng before police evicted him from a Parliamentary Select Committee hearing.

Mr Murdoch, whose company partly owns BSkyB and Twentieth Century Fox, faced questions by MPs into his knowledge of alleged illegal phone hacking within News International, particularly at the now-extinct News of the World, his biggest-selling English newspaper.

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