lawyers Tory peers to meet detectives on charges of sexual abuse of children placed online after Newsnight report

The Metropolitan Police is to determine whether criminal proceedings can be placed on the Lord McAlpine Twitter messages related to allegations of child sexual abuse.

lawyers Tory peers will meet Scotland Yard detectives on Wednesday to begin an evaluation exercise of the allegations, confirmed Met.

Scotland Yard said in a statement: "We received a complaint from a crime at that time, however, we can confirm that it will meet with stakeholders to begin the process of determining whether a crime has occurred.'s too early to say whether a criminal investigation is ongoing. "

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McAlpine said it had identified more than 10,000 tweets allegedly defamatory former Treasurer of the Tory party.

announced its intention to sue Twitter users and broadcasters, including the BBC and ITV, for defamation after the Newsnight report inaccurate information about sexual abuse of children, 2 November.

Twitter users can be prosecuted under the Malicious Communications Act if their messages have proven extremely offensive.

The prospect of criminal convictions for allegedly defamatory Twitter messages are likely to increase the temperature in the debate on freedom of expression online. Many users of Twitter and Facebook have been prosecuted - and some jail - last year on the offensive messages

In addition, a spokesman confirmed that McAlpine hopes to resolve his libel battle with ITV on Wednesday. He continued the station broadcast on Phillip Schofield mistake several conservative politicians joined allegations of sexual abuse of children.

Counsel Conservative Party entered the third day of negotiations with lawyers for the station in terms of payment for defamation of six digits.

A spokeswoman said yesterday. "Mr. McAlpine is hoping to reach an agreement with ITV today"

The former treasurer of the Conservative Party on Tuesday night, said he will donate the compensation received from users of Twitter to BBC Children in Need.

asked people who slander the social network to give a "reasonable and modest" to charity to mitigate any defamation.

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