A man has been sentenced to over a year in prison after finding out that, if you want to get your trial judge on your side, throwing human faeces at her is probably not the wisest idea.

Tyrone Clarke was on trial for arson in a magistrate's court in Port of Spain, Trinidad, on January 8, when he pulled a plastic bag of poo out of his pocket and lobbed it at Magistrate Michelle Maharajh-Brown.