Allison Pearson, 64, claimed two Essex Police officers turned up at her door at 9.40am on Remembrance Sunday to inform her she was being investigated over a post on X from a year ago.
A police force has been accused of carrying out an 'appalling' attack on free speech after launching an investigation into a journalist over a post on social media.
Chris Philp, the shadow home secretary and former policing minister, told The Telegraph: 'It is completely wrong that the journalist was not even told about the particulars of the allegation .' Former Prime Minister Mr Johnson wrote in a post on X: 'This is appalling. How can Starmer's Britain lecture other countries about free speech when an innocent journalist gets a knock on the door - for a tweet?
A spokesman for Essex Police said: 'As a police force, we investigate matters which are reported to us without fear or favour, no matter who makes a report or to whom the incident concerns.' A police spokesman said: 'We're investigating a report passed to us by another force. The report relates to a social media post which was subsequently removed. An investigation is now being carried out under section 17 of the Public Order Act.'As part of that investigation, officers attended an address on Sunday November 10 to invite a woman to attend a voluntary interview on the matter.
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