POLICE have arrested a North-East teenager for allegedly posting offensive material on social media website Twitter following the deaths of six people killed when a bin lorry went out of control in Glasgow yesterday.
The 19-year-old man from Sunderland handed himself into police on Monday evening and was arrested on suspicion of making a malicious communication and bailed pending further inquiries.
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