Lyle Shelton cleared, blames ‘Twitter trolls’ for police probe over ‘joke’ post

Queensland Police Commissioner Katarina Carroll said the tweet was “disappointing” because it took away valuable resources to investigate and clear Mr Shelton.

“He can cross the border because I understand he has a G-Pass. So it was just a funny tweet that, in the end, all it did was take away resources that needed to be in other places,” she said.

Mr Shelton said his social media posts were jokes and he was staggered by the reaction.

“I just went around Point Danger and back again, there was no signage or checkpoints or anything like that along the way … I didn’t jump over any police checkpoints or anything like that,” he said.

“It seems strange to me there has been so much interest in one person’s jog along a beach track, but little…