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The woman accused of being first to spread the fake rumours about the Southport killer which sparked nationwide riots has been arrested.

Racist riots spread across the country after misinformation spread on social media claiming the fatal stabbing was carried out by Ali Al-Shakati, believed to be a fictitious name, a Muslim aslyum seeker who was on an MI6 watchlist.

A 55-year-old woman from Chester has now been arrested on suspicion of publishing written material to stir up racial hatred, and false communication. She remains in police custody.

While she has not been named in the police statement about the arrest, it is believed to be Bonnie Spofforth, a mother-of-three and the managing director of a clothing company.

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Wow. That would be a first that spreading misinformation actually has legal consequences.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Also, how much is she to blame, as opposed to RT and Andrew Tate? This woman is a rich racist nobody. She wasn't the main person to spread the info. She isn't a media outlet, and she isn't required to fact check anything she heard (as she claims she heard it from someone else). What's next? Someone getting arrested for calling Vance a couch fucker? (USA still has some stuff going alright for itself)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

She made up a racist lie about a child killer and expressed that violence should result. People rioted. It's called incitement to violence and it's illegal in the UK. No one rioted over the couch nonsense, and no one called for violence over the couch fucking. It's a bit different. Call a riot, go to jail. Your racist lying calls to violence aren't welcome in the UK, rich racist nobody.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

She either made up a racist lie, or she just does a racist lie that she heard. Where's she calling for violence or telling people to riot?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Read the tweet. The logic goes A. If A then B. You're struggling with deducing B from that? You're forgetting that the rioters targeted asylum lawyers and hotels where asylum seekers are held. Where did the idea of last week's violence against asylum seekers come from? It came from her tweet.

I don't care what she says about what someone said in Southport. She was the one who posted the made up name for the child killer. She was the one who posted the made up claim about the killer being an asylum seeker, and she was the one who posted the made up conclusion of violence.

Her tweet itself is the incitement to violence. She's the one who made the announcement online. That there is the crime.

Don't do it, boys and girls. Don't encourage people to violence on the Internet. It's illegal in the UK. Your racist lies and support for violence aren't welcome in Great Britain and we'll very happily see you behind bars along with the far right nut jobs who heed your dog whistle. If this scares any of you personally, good. Not sorry. Don't post support for violence on social media.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

They've already arrested people for making jokes, arrested a kid for insulting an Olympian, and arrested someone for tweeting "the only good soldier is a dead soldier". The UK government continues to be tyrannical and unethical.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And that other conspiracist from infowars.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Quite the punishment. Imagine the inconvenience of having to hide hundreds of millions of dollars.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Eh, the fact they're still at it means it was just the cost of doing business.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Don’t cut yourself on that edge