If you had to take a guess you'd say he's either been in council care most of his life and is now being written off by them, of he's from a disfunctional family who have kicked him out or he's taken the lead and left - hardly surprising that maliciousness and aggression comes to the fore.

Surprised that people haven't learnt from the Muamba tweet incident that you can't be a keyboard hard man, hiding behind assumed Internet anonymity.

Now that British plod is policing the internet, and hurting someone's feeling is viewed as a serious criminal offence, I have two questions:

1. Anyone know how other countries are treating similar comments that pop on up Facebook and Twitter?

2. If a Brit had made the online comments whilst abroad on holiday, could the British police still do something when he returned to the UK, or was no offence committed since he was out of the jurisdiction at the time?

I don't know the answers to the questions, but suggesting you might drown someone is a bit more than "hurting someone's feelings"

The fact he lives in fooking Weymouth should be sufficient mitigation

Not remotely, as far as I am aware. And it would be of enormous concern if he'd been arrested for that.



Indeed. Although given the other people who were goading and threatening him, it does beg the question of whether, if he's arrested, they should not be too.

He's apparently been warned, though, over the furore that brought him to public attention. Although the police are apparently continuing to look at his history of posts.



Pretty much my thoughts. My concern would not be that he was really likely to harm Daley, but the question of whether or not someone with the form he appears to have is a real threat to anyone else. How you deal with that, I have no idea – you can't imprison people because of something they 'might do at some point in the future' (there's a film about that).



I have one question: did you actually read the reports?

You could even have read this:



In other words, he was not arrested for "hurting someone's feeling" [sic].