Poke, poke, poke, poke, poke, poke...a Birmingham man is set to be the first in the UK to stand trial for harassment using Facebook.
Michael Hurst, 33, of Edgbaston, has pleaded not guilty to harassing ex-girlfriend Sophie Sladden. Appearing before magistrates, he was granted conditional bail to stand trial later in March, The Birmingham Mail reports.
He is accused of a breach of the Harassment Act 1997 when he used Facebook to contact Sladden on 21 January.
A spokesman for the Crown Prosecution Service said: "We have prosecuted harassment cases before where people have sent letters, made phone calls, and even text messages in recent years, but to my knowledge this is the first case where a website like Facebook has been involved."
Hurst and Sladden's Facebook accounts have been deleted from the site. [Perhaps the first time a person's info has EVER ACTUALLY been deleted. Or, more likely, they have been "deleted" from the site, but their emails, screennames, addresses, and mobile numbers have been retained. I mean hey, it's all in the privacy info.]
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