Free speech row after police investigate journalist over social media post from a year ago

CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND – FEBRUARY 3: British writer Allison Pearson, the mother of “mommy lit”, who is debuting her much-anticipated second novel. Photographed February 3, 2011 in Cambridge, England. (Photo by Emily Mott/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

POLICE have sparked a free speech row by investigating a journalist over a social media post made a year ago.

Officers turned up at Allison Pearson’s home on Remembrance Sunday to question her about a non-crime hate incident.