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jeroenhdyesterday at 9:34 PM0 repliesview on HN

This has a bit more info: https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/orwellian-nightmare...

Notably:

> with the situation causing him considerable stress at a point where he was also dealing with an inquest into the deaths of his parents, who had both died in a car crash in 2023

so for some reason, there was something going on about his parents' death two years later. The article also states:

> He said the complaint against him was linked to an ongoing business dispute.

My take is that someone used his pictures of him holding guns (illegal in the UK) as support for a claim that he is an armed and dangerous stalker. Whatever got flagged regarding the inquest into his parents' deaths probably added suspicion. Police acted quickly (as they should, but probably too quickly) and made mistakes, but it looks like they couldn't accept that they were being used, so they decided to continue pressing onwards with the investigation, hoping they were still right and wouldn't be on the hook for a false arrest.

Getting falsely arrested is always terrible, but the way the media spins this as some kind of witch hunt about a LinkedIn post is misleading at best.