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Debate over ‘appalling’ treatment of Telegraph writer Allison Pearson continues as it emerges children as young as nine investigated

Allison Pearson was probed by Essex Police for year-old social media post

Primary school pupil who called classmate a ‘retard’ among children investigated by police

Allison Pearson, the highly respectable Daily Telegraph middlebrow columnist, was naturally startled when, on Remembrance Sunday morning, two police presented themselves at her door to tell her that she was under investigation for allegedly stirring up racial hatred in connection with a social media post on X and invited her…

Telegraph columnist Allison Pearson said the police response to a year-old deleted post on X was ‘outrageous’.

Daniele Aldegheri, 49, was found by police cowering under a duvet at his home

Stuart Coldicott, then 36, sustained serious head injuries in Colchester city centre

Stuart Coldicott suffered a serious head injury in Colchester in February 2014 and died in March this year.

The veteran politician’s daughter, Katie Amess, has called for a full inquest into his death and said there are still unanswered questions.