https://freespeechunion.org/fsu-member-bernadette-spofforth-has-case-dropped-after-arrest-for-southport-killer-tweet/

> We’re delighted the police have decided to take no further action against our member Bernie Spofforth, who never should have been arrested in the first place. Had she been prosecuted, we would have arranged for a crack team of lawyers to defend her and paid all their costs.

> While Ms Spofforth may inadvertently have spread ‘misinformation’ during a time of heightened community tensions, it would have been hard for the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) to charge her with the section 179 false communications offence created by the Online Safety Act 2023, because one of the tests that has to be met is that “the message conveys information that the person knew to be false”.

> Clearly, that wasn’t the case here.

> In her tweet, Ms Spofforth added the coda “if this is true” and when she discovered it wasn’t, she deleted it. nostr.fmt.wiz.biz