Ajw71 wrote:
The first post about his father was indeed crass but not sure whether illegal...
Not remotely, as far as I am aware. And it would be of enormous concern if he'd been arrested for that.
Ajw71 wrote:
After that however he started making death threats. "I'm guna drown him in the pool etc'. Thats what probably got him arrested.
Indeed. Although given the other people who were goading and threatening him, it does beg the question of whether, if he's arrested, they should not be too.
He's apparently been warned, though, over the furore that brought him to public attention. Although the police are apparently continuing to look at his history of posts.
JerryChicken wrote:
If you had to take a guess you'd say he's either been in council care most of his life and is now being written off by them, of he's from a disfunctional family who have kicked him out or he's taken the lead and left - hardly surprising that maliciousness and aggression comes to the fore.
Pretty much my thoughts. My concern would not be that he was really likely to harm Daley, but the question of whether or not someone with the form he appears to have is a real threat to anyone else. How you deal with that, I have no idea – you can't imprison people because of something they 'might do at some point in the future' (there's a film about that).
The Video Ref wrote:
Now that British plod is policing the internet, and hurting someone's feeling is viewed as a serious criminal offence, I have two questions:...
I have one question: did you actually read the reports?
You could even have read this:
Ferocious Aardvark wrote:
He's been arrested for "on suspicion of malicious communications." Having read the published ones, I can see why. Stand outside anywhere and shout the same sort of stuff, you'll get arrested just the same, and rightly so.
In other words, he was not arrested for "hurting someone's feeling" [sic].
