Bit more background here
Senior judges reject Mark Meechan's bid to take his hate crime conviction to the Supreme Court for appeal.
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the crown were content there was sufficient to prosecute under the communications act, the sheriff convicted and the conviction was upheld on appeal.
the free speech argument was advanced and the sheriff and the appeal court dismissed that after considering the arguements for and against.
i haven’t seen anything that the complaint arose from a politicians staff and from the reports the circumstances appear to be anti semitic, ie “ gas the Jews”.