A former civil servant who wrote a blog post in which he imagined kidnapping and murdering Girls Aloud has been found not guilty of publishing an obscene article.
Darryn Walker was arrested in February last year after his story was published on a fantasy pornography website being monitored by the Internet Watch Foundation, who tipped off police.
Walker's lawyer Tim Owen QC, said: "It was never intention to frighten or intimidate the members of Girls Aloud. He had written what he had described as an adult celebrity parody and was only meant to be for an audience of like-minded people. As soon as he was aware of the upset and fuss that had been created, he took steps himself to take the article off the website. This type of writing is widely available on the internet in an unregulated and uncensored form. In terms of its alleged obscenity, it is frankly no better or worse than other articles".