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Sophie Robinson

‘Right-wing’ former prison officer not guilty of stirring up racial hatred on X

Loughborough Courthouse, where Mark Heath was on trial (Joe Giddens/PA) - (PA Archive)

A “right-wing” former prison officer has been found not guilty of stirring up racial hatred in a series of social media posts shared before and after the Southport attacks.

Mark Heath denied publishing “threatening, abusive or insulting” posts on X, formerly Twitter, between July 22 and August 6 this year.

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