Overview

• Newly released detail from the force says the report alleged Deborah Anderson called the complainant a “terrorist” and wrote that if she were prime minister they would be “lined up and shot.”
• Thames Valley Police say they engaged both parties after the June complaint and have taken no further action, with no arrests made.
• Police and crime commissioner Matthew Barber said the visit was a mistake, calling the post rude and offensive but not criminal.
• A June video shows an officer asking Anderson to apologise or attend a formal interview; the Free Speech Union posted it this week and says its intervention preceded the case being dropped.
• The episode drew political criticism, including from Kemi Badenoch, and has become part of a wider dispute over policing online speech following cases such as Graham Linehan’s arrest.