I'm afraid JoeLoeg is correct, ukalec. A bit of common sense if required when writing gossip on a media, I think you're comparing it with telling someone personally that you heard something and therefore it's fine, a bit of hearsay, idle gossip etc. What you wrote could be classed as sub judice i.e. you said that someone did something and the influence of the you saying that on a forum could affect the legal proceedings, so the perpetrator can be released "on a technicality" and I'm hoping you don't want that. Anyway, the forum doesn't want that so I've deleted it.