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WASSHHH
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Valid (not) point
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Locky888
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So the best evidence they have is that a person deleted their social media account. Circumstantial evidence at best. They'll need someone with links to the NSA to get to the bottom of it.
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Foordy
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the person who started this has his/her fingers crossed that you're right.
I highly doubt that's the best evidence they have. they're not going to give Pete Badel a call and reveal everything.
007
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From personal experience it would need to be proven beyond doubt that certain persons were actually in control and posted such defamatory material. Add to that, if some of it is true, or published as an opinion - it has no legs really.
Foordy
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if he goes the civil route, the burden of proof is "on the balance of probabilities", so if his lawyers can prove that it is slightly more likely than not the person committed the act, he wins.
obviously it will be much harder to prove in a criminal court due to the far higher standard of proof.
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vertigo
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**** this fraud and **** the club for signing him.
Jason Simmons
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I personally bet this all goes away and Pies is as successful at pursuing this as he currently is at pursuing a premiership...
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Jason Simmons
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Meanwhile the vultures are out in force already, preparing for the next captivating round of sensationalist drivel...
007
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Talk about hungry
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I wish our players had that much hunger for a win
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They have nothing. It's a bluff to draw attention away.
McHunt bought up a good point. These experts haven't contacted me. So they're full of shit.
McHunt
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LOL. First glance I thought this was a speed trap!
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Same here, especially with that first line.
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My guess is their "300 leads" are Facebook names who participated in the rumour. As far as I know, it's not a crime to tell someone something you heard. If it were we'd have to cordon off an entire state for a women's field prison.
Maybe @Jason Simmons can tell us whether they would have enough reason to demand the IP addresses associated with the accounts. I don't think Facebook would comply with such a trivial matter, unless they can frame it as a more serious crime. And once they have the IP's, they still have to get the ISPs to comply, presuming they're not using a VPN. And then they have to establish who in the household did it. They haven't had that kind of time.
More likely, they have the FB account names, and are treating them as verified names. I bet that Matty Johns Show page is "Matty Johns," for example.
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McHunt
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For a second there, I thought he was taking the piss out of his colleagues.
