In January 2010, a guy whose local airport was closed by snow did a tweet saying he was going to blow it up if the operators didn’t get their act together. The boneheads at Doncaster magistrate’s court decided it was “a message of a menacing character” in May 2010 and slapped a fine plus costs on the prisoner at the bar. In November 2010, a crown court judge and a brace of magistrates dismissed his appeal, saying that the tweet was “clearly menacing”. It has taken until today, two and a half years after the event, for the Lord Chief Justice and a pair of judges to decide that the lower courts were talking tripe and allow another appeal.
Which leaves us with two possible conclusions: 1. Everyone associated with the court system and the Can’t Prosecute Service up to the rank of crown court judge is an idiot; or 2. The system really is all about cramming dosh into the pockets of everyone associated with the courts, no matter how flimsy the pretext for doing so.
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