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The Home Office says existing legislation provides the correct balance between protecting the public from the relatively small number of individuals who misuse catapults, while also allowing the public to enjoy legitimate pastimes.

The Met Police say the pair, aged 17 and 22, were arrested at residential addresses in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, on suspicion of computer misuse and blackmail.

When misused, stop and search was "an enormous waste of police time" and "an unacceptable affront to justice", she said at the time.

On Sunday, the police warned that sharing of "criminal and inflammatory" information was a misuse of social media driven by ill intentions.

Since then, his identity appears to have been misused.