Man who sent 'grossly offensive' tweet about Captain Sir Tom Moore avoids jail

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Joseph Kelly, 36, of Castlemilk, Glasgow, sent the tweet last year and was handed a community payback order in court.

Captain Sir Tom Moore died at Bedford Hospital on February 2 last year after testing positive for Covid-19 the day after he died has dodged a prison sentence.

Tony Callahan, defending Kelly, said he only had a handful of followers when he posted the tweet and did not realise how widely it would be shared. Mr Callahan said: ‘He accepts he was wrong. He did not anticipate what would happen. He took steps almost immediately to delete the tweet but the genie was out of the bottle by then.

 

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