Words can get you locked up in the UK now!

no excuses post online bye bye freedom “We can only speculate he’s been caught up and swept away by emotions circulating throughout the country.”

Parlour appeared to blow a raspberry as he was led from the court. Rosemary Ainslie, the acting head of the Crown Prosecution Service’s special crime and counter-terrorism division, said: “Let me be absolutely clear, people who think they can hide behind their keyboards and stir up racial hatred should think again.”

Kay used his own name and profile picture on his account, while advising others on “staying anon” and saying he had “watched enough CSI programmes” and would “categorically not be arrested”. He also tagged Northamptonshire police force in one of his posts.

Elsewhere, a woman who pushed a burning wheelie bin into a police line before falling to the ground and being arrested was jailed for 20 months. Stacey Vint, 34, was sentenced.