"A bail document seen by The Telegraph refers to an allegation of possessing a firearm with intent to cause fear of violence and a further allegation of stalking related to a photograph of a house that appeared on his social media."
just variant #9812981837 of the "which opinions, MFer??" goose meme merry-go-round
I suppose if you posted a picture of my house and immediately thereafter a picture of yourself with a gun I’d call the police too.
Quite the gaggle of charges flying about!
The article is just missing some really obvious key points - what was written in the LinkedIn post? Whose house was in the image?
The headline is written for maximum clicks in the US advertising market. If an ex husband is posting pictures of his ex wife’s house and cryptic threatening messages on LinkedIn (not saying he was, but if he was) that’s a very different story from “man is arrested for photo with gun”.
On the other hand, the police in my beloved country (including the WYP) never cease in their hard work to make mistakes in some new unfathomable way. So it’s entirely possible that this story is just exactly what it seems on first inspection.
The thing you fail to understand is how afraid of guns British people can be.
There was an article a few years ago about a British man, ex army. The story goes someone threw a bag of shotguns over his fence. He found them. Brought them inside for safekeeping overnight, brought them to the police station first thing in the morning. Arrested and charged for possession.
As far as I can tell he posted a picture containing a gun. This scared someone who reported it. The police arrested him. No further evidence of a crime was found and he was not charged.
pinewurst•2mo ago