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Stan Collymore in Twitter racial abuse claim: Man charged | |
(about 4 hours later) | |
A 21-year-old man has been charged with racially abusing ex-footballer Stan Collymore on Twitter. | |
Police said Joshua Cryer, of Jesmond, Newcastle, was charged with "a Section Five racial public order offence and a Section Five public order offence". | |
Collymore had contacted Staffordshire Police who passed on the complaint to Northumbria Police. | |
The 40-year-old, originally from Cannock, Staffordshire, played for a string of top clubs in his career. | |
He now works as a broadcaster for talkSPORT. | He now works as a broadcaster for talkSPORT. |
Northumbria Police said Mr Cryer would appear before Newcastle magistrates on 23 January. | |
The force began an investigation in the early hours of Saturday after receiving a complaint of racist comments that had been made on Twitter. | |
Collymore campaigns against racism and is a supporter of the charity Depression Alliance. |