• The Drum, Tuesday, November 20, 2012 3:52 PM

The wife of the Speaker of the House of Commons, has temporarily retired from Twitter on legal advice after her involvement in the misidentification of Lord McAlpine in a sexual abuse case and the naming a child abduction victim through the platform as well. Bercow, who has over 60,000 followers on Twitter, is understood to be one of thousands of people targeted by the lawyers of Lord McAlpine for her inference through the microblogging site that he sexually abused young boys – a claim that has since been withdrawn.

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