‘Reported For Tweeting My Cat May Be A Methodist’ Barrister’s Tweets Logged As Hate Incidents

Barrister and free speech campaigner Sarah Phillimore joins Talk’s Kevin O’Sullivan discussing her experience with Britain’s ‘thought police’. Sarah says she was recorded for a non-crime hate incident (NCHI), after she jokingly tweeted: “My cat really loves Dreamies perhaps he’s a Methodist.” She discovered that 12 pages of her tweets were logged as NCHIs, which led to her crowdfunding nearly £50,000 to remove the records. Click here for more from Talk https://talk.tv If you need any help visit: https://talk.tv/helplines #freespeech #crime #police