内容摘要：He started behaving violently from Year 9 and was excluded from Range High School in Formby in October 2019 at the age of 13.

He started behaving violently from Year 9 and was excluded from Range High School in Formby in October 2019 at the age of 13.

Offences concerning incitement under UK law predate social media, and are listed under the Public Order Act 1986.This may include provoking violence and harassment, as well as engaging in rioting.

The Online Safety Act, which became law in 2023 but has not yet fully come into effect, will require social media firms to "take robust action against illegal content and activity", including "racially or religiously aggravated" offences as well as inciting violence.The criminal offences introduced by the act will cover sending "threatening communications" online, and sharing "false information intended to cause non-trivial harm".On Monday, Sir Keir emphasised that "criminal law applies online as well as offline".

Mr Musk's comments have drawn criticism from some online, with satirist Armando Iannucci saying the Tesla and Space X CEO had been "taken in by your own platform, which amplifies noise at the expense of facts".Sunder Katwala, director of think tank British Future, said the post was "spreading a narrative that is crucial to socialising people with fairly extreme view towards condoning violence to protect their group".

He said there needs to be "strong responses from government, Ofcom, and parliament" to the comments.

An Ofcom spokesperson told BBC News it is "moving quickly" to implement the Online Safety Act, so it can be enforced "as soon as possible".The report highlighted risk assessments being completed without referencing information about child safeguarding and domestic abuse.

A Ministry of Justice spokesperson said the new government "inherited a criminal justice system in crisis" and it had plans to recruit 1,000 probation officers.The East of England probation service is one of 12 probation regions in England and covers Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Peterborough, Essex, Northamptonshire, Norfolk and Suffolk.

Martin Jones, chief inspector of probation, said: “While the commitment and dedication of leaders and staff across the region was found to be unwavering, this commitment and dedication is not amounting to sufficient measures in keeping the public safe or encouraging people on probation to change.”The report found chronic staffing issues "despite a sustained effort" across the region to recruit, and said senior probation officers had "excessive workloads and vast responsibilities which were greater than what they could reasonably be expected to deliver".