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Arrested for posting a photo holding a gun while on vacation in America… Welcome to the UK.
Jon Richelieu-Booth, a 50-year-old IT consultant from Keighley, West Yorkshire visited friends in Florida, July 2025. While there he handled firearms legally on private land, the first time he had done so, and later posted photos on LinkedIn of himself holding or standing near a shotgun and other guns.
The captions were about his trip and work, not threats. After he returned to Britain, West Yorkshire Police visited him. Someone, Booth says a contractor involved in a business dispute who owed him money, had complained. Police treated the gun pictures and a separate image of a house on his profile, as part of a stalking complaint and as causing fear of violence. They first warned him about what he posted, then arrested him on 24 August 2025 on suspicion of possessing a firearm with intent to cause fear of violence and stalking. He was held overnight, had devices seized, and was bailed.
Police found no gun in the UK. The firearms and stalking allegations were dropped. He was later charged with a public-order offence over social-media content (displaying writing or images intending to cause harassment, alarm or distress).
The Crown Prosecution Service discontinued that case too, saying there was not enough evidence for a realistic prospect of conviction.
West Yorkshire Police’s position is that they acted on a complaint of stalking involving serious alarm or distress; the complainant interpreted the posts, including the gun photos, as a threat.
Booth has called the episode an “Orwellian nightmare,” said he was unable to work while his devices were held, and has talked about suing and leaving the UK. All charges were dropped.
Many of Meta’s biggest social media products, including Facebook and Instagram, are free to use.
But Naomi Brockwell says the reality behind that “free” access is far more sinister.
You are the product.
“Meta is an advertising company, and people need to understand that they are the product in that system.”
“Everything that they do, every entity with Meta that they participate with, they are helping harvest information that Meta then packages and resells.”
“They’re not just selling it to consumer product companies to try to get us to buy a new pair of shoes.”
“They’re selling it to political regimes to try to get us to think in a certain way.”
“It’s being used to sow social division.”
“It’s being used in all kinds of nefarious ways.”
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