Sunday, April 21, 2013

Paris Brown: no further action to be taken over Twitter comments

Paris Brown has apologised for causing offence with the messages she posted on Twitter between the ages of 14 and 16. Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA

No further action is to be taken against Britain’s first youth police and crime commissioner, who stepped down from the role over offensive comments she made on Twitter, police have said.

Paris Brown, 17, was meant to be providing young people’s views on policing but found her tweets being investigated amid claims they were homophobic, racist and violent.

A spokeswoman for Kent police said on Sunday: “We have spoken to the CPS about our findings, and given them our view that this case does not pass the evidential threshold for prosecution; we will make no recommendations to them for charges and will take no further police action having discharged our duty to investigate.

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