> In this particular case, the IT consultant was owed money by a failing business, and he put 1) a picture of the business premises, and 2) pictures of him firing guns, on a website where he was sure the business owner would see it.

From your own link, this was from 2 separate posts. I don't know man, this sounds like an excuse from the company to cause trouble and avoid having to pay the owed money.

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Aurornis 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Also the “website where he was sure the business owner would see it” is a cheap way to hide the fact that he posted on his on LinkedIn, which he used as his social media network. You can just say LinkedIn. We know what LinkedIn is.

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amiga386 4 hours ago | parent [-]

I'm glad you know what LinkedIn is.

Now imagine you owe this guy money, he's admitted in public that he put a picture of your business premises at the top of every blog post he makes on LinkedIn in order to get your attention, and his latest blog posts on the LinkedIn website therefore shows YOUR WORKPLACE and HIM SHOOTING GUNS.

Juxtaposition that he admits he wants you to see.

You can read all three blogposts. Note he has switched out the picture of the workplace (top-right PFP):

1. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jonrichelieu-booth_jonthehash...

> Top of my agenda Today is getting a follow-up email to the Secretary of State for Business and Trade regarding my delinquent Client

"delinquent client" and no mention of why there's a picture of him with guns or where it was taken

2. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jonrichelieu-booth_jonthehash...

> I am disappointed that absolutely nothing has come back from the Secretary of State for Business and Trade (OR his Department) regarding my delinquent Client.. this is concerning as despite continuing to owe me

"delinquent client" who "owes" him and once again, picture of him shooting guns apropos of nothing, nothing explaining where he is, whose guns they are, just him shooting guns. Guess he just likes to shoot guns while talking about his "delinquent client" who "owes" him and he's put a picture of the delinquent client's premises as his PFP.

3. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jonrichelieu-booth_jonthehash...

> Today I'll be following up on my message to the Yorkshire Post by calling the Secretary of State for Business and Trade regarding my delinquent Client.. it's become necessary given what the Owner of said Client is currently doing. I'm also going to escalate my concerns to North Yorkshire Police, then I'll grab the Popcorn and see where this goes.

And again no-context gun photo to add to the blog post about his delinquent client

Hopefully you can understand why the guy who owes him money would feel intimidated and call the police, and you can see why there appears to be enough evidence to charge the guy for harrassing the ower, and to arrest him so you can establish if he possesses the guns he has posted himself shooting.

	▲	Aurornis 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I read the posts. He's obviously writing daily updates and posts and includes pictures from his travels. The photos are obviously target shooting. This is a common sport in many countries. Your argument is that because he wrote long daily updates about what he was doing and included two unrelated things, that he's implying that the guns are for those offhand remarks? We get getting farther and farther from the real problem, which is that the UK police have been weaponized to respond to people's social media posts about how they make others feel. That's a ridiculously low bar. From https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/consultant-arrested-posi... > However, he said that a police officer later visited his home to warn him that concerns had been raised about the post. > "I was told to be careful what I say online and I need to understand how it makes people feel," he said.
	▲	IslandRebel 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> Hopefully you can understand why the guy who owes him money would feel intimidated and call the police, and you can see why there appears to be enough evidence to charge the guy for harrassing the ower, and to arrest him so you can establish if he possesses the guns he has posted himself shooting. No, I don't understand why he would. Nothing there was intimidation. Pretending it is intimidation is stretching crudility. The fact that he got arrested over this is straight up nonsense, IMO. All the posts read like blog-style posts, and there wasn't any aggressive language used there at all. He also mentioned he was meeting with people to resolve the issue through legal means in the posts. I suspect the owner who owed him money was acting maliciously.

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amiga386 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jonrichelieu-booth_jonthehash...

This is one of three days worth of posts where he talks about his "delinquent client" and ends with a picture of him and guns (with no explanation of why, where or how him and the guns are related to the body text). He put an image of the business owner's premises as his PFP in the top-right corner, which is now a picture of some people sitting in chairs. The business premises, "delinquent client" body text and gun photos appear on the same page.

Further details: https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/12/01/uk-police-arrest-gun-...