Instructed by Sonn Macmillan Walker, Tom Orpin-Massey represented a client charged with sending tweets that were menacing or grossly offensive while he was a spectator at the Tour de France race - London.
Facing a charge contrary to s.127 Communications Act 2003, the client maintained that the tweet were sent in "gallows humour" spirit, not intended to be offensive or threatening. The client ws acquitted after the bench were taken to the key authorities of Chambers v DPP [2012] EWHC 2157 (Admin) and DPP v Collins [2006] 1 WLR 2223, and persuaded that the tweets should not incur criminal sanction, further arguments were advanced concerning Article 10 of the EC HR: the right to free speech (City of London Magistrates' Court).