Blog Mgog

It has been reported that a Welsh blogger has been fined £150 (plus costs) for posting 'menacing messages' on his blog about a police officer who originally interviewed him.

Gavin Brent is reported to have been found guilty under the Telecommunications Act of posting menacing messages. I suspect this is an erroneuous reference to the Communications Act 2003 S. 127, which provides that it is an offence to make improper use of a public telecommunication network. A person who 'sends by means of a public electronic communications network, a message or other matter that is grossly offensive, or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character' is committing an offence.

The offender here wrote something which could be construed as offensive in relation to the police officer's family. Another cautionary tale to all bloggers out there.