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| Subject: 'I'm blowing the airport sky high': Stephen Fry backs man charged over 'menacing tweet' Thu Jun 28, 2012 12:11 am | |
| Comedian Stephen Fry has attended a court hearing to support a British man appealing his conviction over a tweet saying he would blow a snowed-in airport "sky high".
Paul Chambers, 27, from Doncaster, was convicted in May 2010 of sending a "menacing electronic communication" for a tweet that said: "Crap! Robin Hood airport is closed. You've got a week and a bit to get your shit together, otherwise I'm blowing the airport sky high!!"
Chambers has attracted the support of several British comedians and he was accompanied by Fry and stand-up comic Al Murray to his High Court appeal yesterday.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/im-blowing-the-airport-sky-high-stephen-fry-backs-man-charged-over-menacing-tweet-20120628-213pd.html#ixzz1z3e9rjz8
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