Essex Police has dropped its investigation into Allison Pearson, the Telegraph journalist, for an alleged hate crime. Pearson, an award-winning writer, was being investigated for allegedly stirring up racial hatred with a social media post made in November ...

Essex Police has strongly defended their investigation which triggered strong reactions from Conservative politicians, including the shadow home secretary who said "police should not be policing thought or speech".

At last, an outbreak of common sense from Essex Police. After a mounting backlash – with Boris Johnson, Elon Musk and Nigel Farage expressing their dismay – the boys in blue have decided to drop

Essex Police have closed an investigation into a journalist for alleged incitement of racial hatred over a post online that has since been deleted. An independent review will be launched into the force’s handling of the case.

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The Telegraph journalist was being investigated for allegedly stirring up racial hatred with a social media post made in November last year.

COPS have dropped their investigation into Allison Pearson over a social media post. Essex Police stopped their case looking into the Telegraph journalist, after she was accused of stirring up

Essex Police says it is not taking any further action against Allison Pearson after an investigation into a social media post by the Daily Telegraph columnist. The investigation has been closed, but there will be an independent review of the force’s handling of the matter,

Police drop investigation into social media post by journalist - Allison Pearson was probed by Essex Police for year-old social media post