Man cleared of obscenity over Girls Aloud blog

A FORMER civil servant who wrote an internet article imagining the kidnap, rape and murder of the pop group Girls Aloud was cleared of obscenity yesterday.

Darryn Walker, 35, faced prosecution after writing a 12-page blog on a fantasy pornography site.

The Crown Prosecution Service took action, believing that the group’s young fans could easily have stumbled across it while searching the internet for material about the band.