3 June - Demanding, menacing, threatening - Episode 2
The menacing letter didn’t simply arrive courtesy of a second class stamp and a local postmark it came from a City solicitor with an EC3 address.
As implied on Tuesday there are some decent people in Bexley Labour so I was tipped off about its likely arrival a week earlier.
A site search revealed that the complainant had never merited a reference here until I was
verbally attacked for my opinion of the Metropolitan Police but was
additionally associated, and publicly admitted to being so, with a frivolous
complaint against Councillor Read and later against Councillor Hackett. @bexleynews
came in for on-line criticism alleging that they were
content to see school children go hungry during half term.
Never named because the complainant prefers to hide behind Twitter anonymity.
I referred every BiB reference to a libel lawyer who reported back that what was published here got
“nowhere near the threshold for being libellous or defamatory” and I additionally dug out
my correspondence with Bexley police which advised that in reporting news “as a
journalist” I could not be held liable for harassment unless my comments were “racist or very extreme”.
Thus reassured I went back to sleep for a week.