Essex police have arrested a man after discovering plans for a water fight circulating on BlackBerry Messenger. Photograph: Getty ImagesA man appears before magistrates in September for attempting to organize a citywide water fight on his mobile phone.
20-year-old from Colchester, Southeast England, was arrested Friday after the police Essex discovered the plans BlackBerry circulating on the Messenger service and Facebook.
Unnamed man has been charged with "encouraging or assisting in the Commission of an offence" under the serious crime Act 2007, said police.
He was arrested the day water fight was held in conjunction with another 20-year-old man. He has been Input appears before Colchester magistrates on 1 September. The other man was released without charge.
BlackBerry Messenger service, a closed communications network was the social network of choice for the organisation of many of the raids on shops and businesses during the riots across parts of England last week.
The police spokesman refused to disclose whether Essex police had monitored the messenger service since the riots. "Essex police use appropriate measures, regardless of the crime, and no matter how our investigations lead us," he said.
Spoke during last Thursday parliamentary debate on the riots, said David Cameron he would examine whether social networking sites should be closed, if they have helped the "plot" crime. The Prime Minister said he would "look at whether it would be right to stop people communicate via these Web sites and services, when we know the acceleration data violence, disorder and crime".
He has received support from some Tory backbenchers, including Louise Mensch, who compared a ban with close a Stretch rail network after an accident.
In 2008, there was a wave of mass water fights in UK cities, which was organized through the social networking. Most remained peaceful.
This month a water fight attended by thousands of young Iranians attracted attention Tehran's morality police and led to a series of arrests.
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