Tom Daley: No Charge

“On 30 July 2012 Daniel Thomas, a semi-professional footballer, posted a homophobic message on the social networking site, Twitter. This related to the Olympic divers Tom Daley and Peter Waterfield. This became available to his “followers”. Someone else distributed it more widely and it made its way into some media outlets. Mr Thomas was arrested and interviewed. The matter was then referred to CPS Wales to consider whether Mr Thomas should be charged with a criminal offence...
"This was, in essence, a one-off offensive Twitter message, intended for family and friends, which made its way into the public domain. It was not intended to reach Mr Daley or Mr Waterfield, it was not part of a campaign, it was not intended to incite others and Mr Thomas removed it reasonably swiftly and has expressed remorse. Against that background, the Chief Crown Prosecutor for Wales, Jim Brisbane, has concluded that on a full analysis of the context and circumstances in which this single message was sent, it was not so grossly offensive that criminal charges need to be brought..."

Keir Starmer QC, the Director of Public Prosecutions.
Full statement on the CPS website.
Daniel Thomas had tweeted; "If there is any consolation for finishing fourth at least Daley and Waterfield can go bum each other #teamHIV"
Thomas - who is clearly as thick as he is homophobic - had claimed someone else had sent the message after his phone was left unattended.
Some gay media went big on this story - mainly I guess as they could put "Tom Daley" and "gay" in a sentence without fearing a libel case (though note, Tom asked that there be no prosecution).

 can go bum each other in the shower #tera"If there is any consolation for finishing fourth at least Daley and Waterfield can go and bum each other #teamHIV."

Read the full story on Sports Mole at: http://www.sportsmole.co.uk/diving/team-gb/olympics/news/homophobic-abuse-towards-daley-was-prank_37422.html

"If there is any consolation for finishing fourth at least Daley and Waterfield can go and bum each other #teamHIV."

Read the full story on Sports Mole at: http://www.sportsmole.co.uk/diving/team-gb/olympics/news/homophobic-abuse-towards-daley-was-prank_37422.html

"If there is any consolation for finishing fourth at least Daley and Waterfield can go and bum each other #teamHIV."

Read the full story on Sports Mole at: http://www.sportsmole.co.uk/diving/team-gb/olympics/news/homophobic-abuse-towards-daley-was-prank_37422.html

Olympics: Consolation Prize

Oh well...
Well done, Tom and Pete anyway.
See you on Friday August 10th - Men's 10m Platform preliminaries.
We fight on - we fight to win!

Update: A reader, Mike, tells me he's just heard Stella McCartney being interviewed on the tellybox about designing Team GB's Olympics kit, and it seemed to suggest she'd deliberately tried to make Tom's trunks as "brief" as possible - if so, thank you ma'am. x

PS The screengrab below went viral after the final - not sure why.