Ridicule or Ridiculous?

Paul Chambers who posted what he described as a “silly joke” on Twitter threatening to blow up Robin Hood Airport has won his appeal against a conviction of sending ‘menacing electronic communications’. Mr Chambers wrote ‘C**p! Robin Hood Airport is closed. You’ve got a week and a bit to get your s**t together otherwise I’m blowing the airport sky high!’ Mr Chambers was fined £385 and ordered to pay £600 costs after being convicted under the Communications Act 2003 in May 2010. However, the conviction was quashed after John Cooper QC stated this was an obvious joke, there was no attempt to conceal his identity and it obviously had no links with terrorism.