www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-58054431
Dreadfully poor taste and not something I could condone, but to criminalise a joke seems to impinge too far on freedom of expression.
People with effigies on bonfire night will need to be doubly careful and anyone who videos them even more so.
One comment that surprised me, and perhaps the legal bods here could clarify: "and was also ordered to pay the CPS' costs of £6,095 within 28 days." If he has been acquitted why does he have to bear the prosecutions costs?
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