Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/22/paul_chambers_twitter_joke_high_court/
Twitter 'martyr' takes airport joke case to High Court
Free-tweeting hero takes it to the top, squawks 'purple firebananas'
Posted in Law, 22nd November 2010 16:59 GMT
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A man who was convicted of posting a tasteless joke on Twitter about blowing up a UK airport plans to take his case to Blighty's High Court.
Human rights lawyer Ben Emmerson will head up the legal fight for Paul Chambers, according to the Associated Press [1].
Chambers, 27, of was arrested in January for posting a message on his @pauljchambers Twitter account saying he would blow Doncaster's Robin Hood Airport "sky high" if his flight was hit by delays.
In May this year, Chambers was found guilty of sending a threatening message over a public telecoms network. He later appealed the conviction and fine handed down to him, but that was rejected earlier this month.
The verdict led to a campaign by supporters of Chambers retweeting his ill-fated joke online.
Chambers unsurprisingly took to Twitter to confirm that he was heading to the High Court:
"Yes, probably to the detriment of my mental wellbeing, I am appealing the decision as best I can. Purple firebananas," he said [2]. ®