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Woman who shared false name of Southport suspect on social media bailed

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Bernadette Spofforth , 55 , arrested on suspicion of stirring racial hatred by spreading false information.

She allegedly wrote on social media platform that the Southport suspect, Axel Rudakubana , was an “asylum seeker who came to the UK by boat last year ” and was on an MI6 watch list” Cheshire Police said she was arrested for a public order offence under a 1986 law and false communications under the Online Safety Act 2023 .

She later deleted the alleged post and said it was a spur of the moment thing.

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informal

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English

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45

Offensive language

offensive

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not hateful

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short-lived

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