Read on Twitter
Kate Scottow has won her appeal and her conviction under s.127 of the Communications Act is quashed
On valentines day last year she was convicted for a dozen tweets of using a public communications network to “cause annoyance, inconvenience and anxiety” https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/i-stand-with-kate-scottow
On valentines day last year she was convicted for a dozen tweets of using a public communications network to “cause annoyance, inconvenience and anxiety” https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/i-stand-with-kate-scottow
You can only imagine the "annoyance, inconvenience and anxiety" for this mother and student being arrested, locked in a police cell for 7 hours, having her computer and phone impounded for months, then being tried, convicted and fined. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7415233/Mother-arrested-calling-trans-woman-man-Twitter-charged-trolling.html
This is how the whole thing started...
https://twitter.com/MForstater/status/1228255304628002816
From here the criminal justice system was used to harass and terrorise a woman for mildly annoying tweets.
https://twitter.com/MForstater/status/1228255304628002816
From here the criminal justice system was used to harass and terrorise a woman for mildly annoying tweets.
On the day of the trial 30 women watched
Hayden- who made the complaint would not sit in the public seats alongside us after giving evidence. The judge gave a special seat alongside the police officer, behind the prosecuting counsel, staring out Kate as she gave her evidence
Hayden- who made the complaint would not sit in the public seats alongside us after giving evidence. The judge gave a special seat alongside the police officer, behind the prosecuting counsel, staring out Kate as she gave her evidence
Judge Dodd said "we teach our children to be kind" as she handed down a guilty verdict to Kate
She said Kate's tweets such as pig-in-a-wig were "not part of a debate" but abuse "There are legitimate ways to debate & express disapproval of a POV on line, and abuse is not one"
She said Kate's tweets such as pig-in-a-wig were "not part of a debate" but abuse "There are legitimate ways to debate & express disapproval of a POV on line, and abuse is not one"
The Law Commission is currently proposing to replace s.127 with a law based on causing emotional harm.
Freedom of speech must include freedom to be annoying & cause offence.
Police officers & district judges cannot decide what is legitimate debate
https://www.lawcom.gov.uk/project/reform-of-the-communications-offences/
Freedom of speech must include freedom to be annoying & cause offence.
Police officers & district judges cannot decide what is legitimate debate
https://www.lawcom.gov.uk/project/reform-of-the-communications-offences/
