Robin Hood twitter ‘bomb threat’ case reaches High Court
08.02.12
A Doncaster man who said on Twitter that he would blow up a snowbound Robin Hood Airport if it was not reopened in time for him to fly to see his girlfriend will appeal to the High Court in London today in an attempt to overturn a criminal conviction for menacing use of a public communication system, the Guardian reports.
Lawyers for Paul Chambers have argued that his message was not intended to menace the airport - it was only sent to his just over 600 followers - and was ‘a jest, a joke, a parody’. They say that the fine and criminal record breach his rights to free expression under the European convention on human rights.
The case is believed to be the UK's first criminal conviction for the content of a tweet. The comedians Stephen Fry, Al Murray and Graham Linehan are among those who offered backing and staged a fundraising show to pay for Mr Chambers' defence.
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