Source: spiked
by Tom Slater
“‘Ali Al-Shakati.’ That was the name that began to swirl around social media in the wake of the Southport stabbings on 29 July – when three young girls were murdered at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class, and a horrified nation was starved of answers. He was a small-boats migrant. He was on an MI6 watchlist. He was known to have mental-health problems. We now know none of this is true. … trigger-happy tweeters shared what turned out to be lurid untruths, the provenance of which are still unclear. … ‘If this is true, then all hell is about to break loose,’ [Bernadette] Spofforth tweeted …. For this, she was arrested … Yesterday, we learned that no further action will be taken against Spofforth on account of ‘insufficient evidence.’ But we’d do well to work out how we ever got into this position in the first place – in which an untrue, thoughtless, inflammatory tweet lands someone in a cell.” (09/19/24)
https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/09/19/the-chilling-arrest-of-bernadette-spofforth/