A Brit kid tweeted an offensive tweet to an Olympian; now arrested for it. (HT: Brickbats)
A teenager has been arrested by police investigating abuse of Team GB diver Tom Daley on Twitter.
After coming fourth in the men’s synchronised 10m platform diving event on Monday, the 18-year-old from Plymouth received a message telling him he had let down his father, Rob.
Rob Daley died in May 2011 from brain cancer.
A 17-year-old boy was arrested at a guest house in the Weymouth area on suspicion of malicious communications.
Dorset Police said they acted after being contacted by a member of the public at about 22:30 BST on Monday.
A spokesman was unable to confirm whether the arrest was specifically over the tweets to Daley or subsequent Twitter conversations with other users.
Daley responded to the tweet by posting: “After giving it my all…you get idiot’s sending me this…”
The user later posted a tweet apologising for the comment.
Sure, it’s nasty, but does it warrant arrest? WTF?
In Britain even remotely offensive language can end in arrest. Christian Bale once got arrested for yelling at his mother in public (and I think his ex too if I remember correctly). Apparently he didn’t like them sponging off of his success.
Yeah, they’re really anti-freedom over there, these days…