Booby-trapped Trans tape on Edinburgh lampposts injures council worker during removal

That would explain why the cleaning workers started feeling ill, from disgust rather than poisoning, and they'd be taken to hospital for checks after contact with bodily fluids.

Possibly released on an undertaking to appear (aka police bail). He’ll be named when he appears.

Nick Wallis I think?

Daniel de Simone at the BBC does extremist action but mainly lts far right and also he's BBC so ..

I was no far from there on streetview just last week, searching for the location of a nice photo I saw on FB with a distinctive red sandstone tenement.

I just took a quick look around and the streetview footage is from September 2022 and the tape is quite obvious on four and maybe a fifth post (Maxwell St looking towards Morningside Road). In other nearby footage from October 25 I don't see the tape. So the streetview footage is in line with reports from PP that this has been going on for years on and off.

I would happily ban all fucking flags that had a political meaning.

The only ones I like are the ones they use to dress the ships, where they are all shrunk tiny and look pretty.

I see the shout has gone out to the derailers.

To get back on topic has the culprit been named officially?

Down in Essex on a trip & there were streets with all union flags, and streets with all St George flags.

My first thought was when are these streets going to fight each other?

I don’t like the idea of England becoming like Belfast, frankly.

I’d assumed that’s cause the far right knobbers were too short! But seriously, piss off with your flags. Do they harm or help with community cohesion? Harm, so off they should fuck.

Of course we can talk about it. Any flag that causes an obstruction should be removed. Are these far-right flag raisers applying toxic substances to them to injure the workers employed to remove them? That would be deplorable.

If we're talking about lampposts can we talk about the far-right who keep attaching flags to lampposts? Some of them are at half-mast (which is odd because that usually means someone has died), some obstruct the visibility of road signs and many become completely wrecked in the British weather and don't look too good.

Ah, good, thank you. I don't feel quite so silly now 😆

Ah. Yes. That's the one.

It was the day before 😉. That is a monumental clue. As was that and neither will mean anything if it's not him 😆

I'll shut up now, I'm boring myself!

I don't know who was named on X! The one I am looking at has history of police charges in relation to threatening women.

@ArabellaScott is it the same one named on Twitter the day before?

Well, took me less than 20 minutes to find a trans identifying man who lives in Morningside and likes to do street 'art' and is the correct age. So I assume any journo worth their salt would find this out similarly.

There are quite a few good and stoic journos in Scotland. Hopefully some of them are on this.

Given the alarm and serious response by emergency services, I think this is definitely something that needs a police statement and court report.

Thanks, that is helfpul. Unlike google.

Because in that case there was a specific court order banning identification (that they should have been given automatically as complainers in a sex case)

Is Scotland the vast majority of people aren’t named before their first court appearance.

court reporters seem to be a dying breed but there seems to be at least one in Edinburgh (going by local newspaper bylines) so hopefully he’s on it.

Also, great name @JakeyRolling

Is that right? It’s so complicated - why was that man was jailed for id ing the woman o. The salmond case? She had anonymity (though we all know who she is) (so same issue really?)

I'm surprised they not been named now they've been charged. But it'll have to go to court at some point — they can't keep it secret forever.