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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Matthew Cooper

THE TRUTH ABOUT: Social media user incited race hate before and after southport attacks - The Untold Story

The case was heard at Leicester Crown Court, sitting at Loughborough Courthouse (Joe Giddens/PA) - (PA Archive)

A social media user accused of inciting race hate before and after the Southport stabbings used his account to post “talk of war” and to claim the suspect arrested over the attacks had arrived in the UK on a dinghy, a court has heard.

Mark Heath is accused of stirring up racial hatred on X, formerly known as Twitter, while publishing “threatening, abusive or insulting” material to the site between July 22 and August 6 this year.

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