This is utterly insane. The court explicitly refused to consider context, saying that the remark, on its own, with no context, was inherently threatening and would have been regarded so by anyone with intelligence.

Woe betide you should you ever say anything taken out of context.

Find someone you really don't like, find a comment they make, interpret it as a threat, and file a complaint under anti-terrorism legislation.

Insanity.

For those who don't want to read up on this, "found guilty" means a £1,000 fine and having £2,600 costs awarded against him. A stiff penalty for stupidity for sure, but he is not doing jail time.

A threat is made, it has to be investigated. He is paying the costs of that investigation. This is why you don't shout "fire!" in a crowded theater. This clown got what he deserved.

As per the first comment at the site, an actual article: http://www.webuser.co.uk/news/top-stories/506872/twitter-bom...