Lord Toby Young has hit out at Thames Valley Police for interrogating a cancer patient over a social media post, declaring it is "Carry On 1984".
Speaking to GB News, the founder and director of the Free Speech Union said the case is "absolutely unbelievable".
An officer from Thames Valley Police turned up at the house of an American woman undergoing cancer treatment to say that the police had received a complaint about a Facebook post, asking for an "apology".
The Free Speech Union successfully forced Thames Valley Police to drop the investigation following a complaint in June.
Lord Toby Young has hit out at police for interrogating a cancer patient over her social media posts
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Discussing the case on GB News, Lord Young stated: "We were absolutely amazed when we first heard about it, when our member contacted us to tell us that an officer from Thames Valley Police had turned up at her house when she was undergoing cancer treatment to say that the police had received a complaint about a Facebook post.
"He was pretty clear that it wasn't unlawful, but nonetheless, he was there to extract an apology from her, it is absolutely unbelievable."
Criticising the police for behaving like "school prefects", Lord Young fumed: "It's as though the police are now school prefects whose job it is to ask people to apologise, to diffuse online spats.
"Except it's more sinister than that, because the policeman said to her, if you don't apologise, I'm afraid you'll have to come with me to the station for a chat. It's like a kind of comic, but at the same time deeply sinister, it's Carry On 1984."
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A Thames Valley Police officer requested an apology from the American cancer patient over her social media posts
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Taking aim at one particular "Kafkaesque" element of the case, Lord Young revealed that following a subject access request, the woman accused found that the police had "deleted all record" of the case.
Asked by host Martin Daubney the "heinous" comment was that caused the police to visit, Lord Young explained: "We don't know, Martin.
"The police didn't tell her, and when, with our help, she submitted a subject access request to try and find out, the police said that they'd accidentally deleted all the records of this complaint, so they couldn't tell her."
He stated: "That's one of the things where it makes it Kafkaesque, to be told to apologise for something, but not told what you're supposed to be apologising for."
Lord Young told GB News that US citizens should join the Free Speech Union for support in free speech cases
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Calling on other US citizens in Britain to join the Free Speech Union for support with free speech cases, Lord Young told GB News: "It's also astonishing that an American citizen could get a knock on the door from a British police force.
"US citizens will be genuinely concerned when they arrive at Heathrow, they could be arrested by armed police officers for things they've tweeted in the US.
"And one of the things we're encouraging us citizens who are planning to come on holiday in the UK is to join the Free Speech Union before they take off, so they'll have us in their corner."
In a statement, a spokesman for Thames Valley Police told GB News: "The video circulating on X shows one of our officers following up on a report from a person who felt threatened by online comments directed at them at their engagement with both parties.
"No further action was taken. It's our duty to respond to allegations of threats or violence."