POLICE in London have been blasted after an investigation into the controversial blogger Wings Over Scotland was dropped just two months after he was arrested.
Stuart Campbell, the acerbic, often controversial writer behind the hugely popular pro-independence blog, called the whole affair a “farce”. Campbell was arrested in August following complaints from a woman in south London.
Police said he was suspected of “harassment and malicious communications” going back two years. Campbell said the charges related to some tweets he had made from the Wings Over Scotland twitter account.
He said: “Nothing more sinister or serious than some tweets has occurred or been alleged to have occurred.
“None of the tweets involved are in ANY way threatening, not even in a joking sense. That’s all we’ll be saying on the subject at this time.”
The 49-year-old was released on bail and bailed again last month.
Yesterday, a spokesman for the Metropolitan Police confirmed that the Crown had dropped charges. “On 18 August a man aged in his 40s was arrested at an address in the Avon and Somerset area on suspicion of harassment and malicious communications.
“He has now been informed that he is released with no further action.”
Campbell said: “This case has been an insane, ridiculous farce from the word go. Every single social media user on the planet could find themselves in a police cell this afternoon on the basis of what I was arrested for. We live in the world of Cardinal Richelieu now, and people should be very afraid.”
Cardinal Richelieu was the chief advisor to Louis XIII of France, and in a quote often attributed to him, and shared by the blogger yesterday, reportedly said “If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.”
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