The police investigation into an 'on-line menace' in opposition to JK Rowling has now been dropped.
The Harry Potter creator shared assist for Sir Salman Rushdie after he was stabbed on the Chautauqua Establishment. After listening to in regards to the assault on Rushdie on 12 August, Rowling had tweeted: "Feeling very sick proper now. Let him be okay."
Rushdie has confronted years of threats over his e-book, The Satanic Verses, which has been banned in Iran since 1988 as many Muslims view it as blasphemous. The creator was set to ship a lecture when he was attacked final month, reviews the Mirror.
After tweeting a message of assist for Rushdie, Rowling was met with a threatening reply which mentioned: “don’t fear you're subsequent”, because the investigation has now been dropped. The identical Twitter account to have messaged the Harry Potter creator additionally posted messages praising the person who carried out the assault. The tweet, which got here from an account in Pakistan, was later eliminated.
A Police Scotland spokeswoman mentioned: “Following a report made to police on Saturday August 13 2022 concerning an internet menace, enquiries have been carried out into this matter and it has been established that it was made out with the UK. Enquiries are actually full and there's no additional police motion at the moment.”
This follows Rowling breaking her silence on Twitter after taking a yr away from the social media platform following an intense backlash she obtained surrounding the controversial feedback she has made on-line in regards to the transgender group.
She has additionally addressed claims she wasn't invited to be included within the Harry Potter films' twentieth anniversary reunion particular originally of the yr. The reunion, Return To Hogwarts, was launched on January 1, and viewers have been left shocked because the particular didn't characteristic the creator, aside from the inclusion of a variety of clips of outdated archive footage.
Following rumours that Rowling wasn't requested to be part of the reunion particular, the Harry Potter creator has now damaged her silence after a complete yr, insisting she merely declined the invitation to participate alongside the franchise's greatest stars, Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, and Rupert Grint.
Talking with Graham Norton on Virgin Radio, the creator put the hypothesis to mattress when she insisted: "I used to be requested to be on that and I made a decision I did not wish to be part of it.
"It was in regards to the movies not the books, fairly rightly. That was what the anniversary was about. So nobody mentioned do not [do it]… I used to be requested to do it and I made a decision to not."
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