Took me a bit to track down what the guy was charged with[3]: The relevant words of section 127 of the Communications Act of 2003 [1] have not been changed since it was enacted and were directly taken from section 43 of the Telecommunication Act of 1984. [2] I don't think Murdoch and ISIS had anything to do with those, not sure about the Tories. Yet cautionary tales about electing face-eating leopards are never completely wrong, even when they are false ;-)

1: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/21/section/127 2: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/12/section/43 3: court documents aren't published yet, info from media reports