{"id":121464,"date":"2021-02-08T19:27:07","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T00:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=121464"},"modified":"2021-02-08T19:57:40","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T00:57:40","slug":"man-in-scotland-faces-jail-time-for-offensive-tweet-mocking-war-heros-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/man-in-scotland-faces-jail-time-for-offensive-tweet-mocking-war-heros-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Man In Scotland Faces Jail Time For \u2018Offensive\u2019 Tweet Mocking War Hero\u2019s Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fman-in-scotland-faces-jail-time-for-offensive-tweet-mocking-war-heros-death%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=121464&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1272948331-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A man has been arrested and charged in Lanarkshire, Scotland, \u201cin connection with an offensive social media tweet about Captain Sir Tom Moore,\u201d according to BBC News.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA Police Scotland spokeswoman said: \u2018On Friday 5 February 2021, we received a report of an offensive tweet about Captain Sir Tom Moore who died on Tuesday 2 February,\u2019\u201d the BBC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-55986646\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA 35-year-old man has subsequently been arrested and charged in connection with communication offenses and is due to appear at Lanark Sheriff Court on Wednesday 17 February,\u201d the spokeswoman continued.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9237235\/Man-35-charged-offensive-tweet-Captain-Tom.html\">Daily Mail<\/a>, 35 year-old Joseph Kelly is due to appear at a Sheriff Court and is accused of \u201ccommunications offenses,\u201d triggering outrage from free speech campaigners. The \u201ccommunication offense\u201d in question relates to a Tweet Kelly wrote shortly after Captain Sir Tom Moore\u2019s death, which read \u201cThe only good Brit soldier is a deed one, burn auld fella, buuuuurn.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Police Scotland, the tweet was reported to them three days later.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt comes as the SNP continues efforts to introduce a new hate crime bill that will criminalize \u2018stirring up hatred\u2019 \u2013 a \u2018vague\u2019 definition that critics believe could legalize cancel culture,\u201d the Daily Mail wrote.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141009221620\/http:\/\/www.neiladdison.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk\/law\/malcomm.htm\">Section 127<\/a> of the United Kingdom\u2019s Communications Act of 2003 (singed into law under Tony Blair\u2019s Labour Government) states that \u201cA person is guilty of an offence if he \u2026 sends by means of a public electronic communications network a message or other matter that is grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA person guilty of an offence under this section shall be liable, Section 127 continues, \u2018on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale, or to both.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Known as \u201cSir Tom,\u201d the World War Two veteran died in Bedford Hospital last week at the age of 100 after being admitted after having trouble breathing. After several weeks of treatment for pneumonia, he was later diagnosed with COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>He had become a national hero after raising more than \u00a332 million for the National Health Service (NHS) during the United Kingdom\u2019s first COVID-19 lockdown. He was knighted in July by Queen Elizabeth II.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">&nbsp;<em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been arrested and charged in Lanarkshire, Scotland, \u201cin connection with an offensive social media tweet about Captain Sir Tom Moore,\u201d according to BBC News. \u201cA Police Scotland &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1892933,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4144,5471,5154,5882,5073,5293],"class_list":["post-121464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-faces","tag-jail","tag-mocking","tag-scotland","tag-time","tag-tweet"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1892933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}