By Richard Spillett, Crime Correspondent For Mailonline
Published: 11:43 GMT, 20 March 2019 | Updated: 11:51 GMT, 20 March 2019
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A mother who went to police over tweets posted by a Catholic journalist about her transgender daughter says she has now withdrawn the complaint.
Susie Green, whose daughter Jackie transitioned as a teenager, reported Caroline Farrow to Surrey Police over tweets posted online after they appeared on TV together.
Mrs Farrow, 44, expressed her outrage on Twitter yesterday that she was the subject of a criminal investigation for 'misgendering' Jackie as a 'he' online.
But Mrs Green hit back today, saying that the complaints were also about Mrs Farrow's tweets calling her a 'child abuser' who had 'castrated' her 'son'.
Susie Green (left) went to police over tweets posted by Catholic journalist Jackie Green (right) about her transgender daughter
Mrs Green said Mrs Farrow's tweets were not an accidental slip, but were 'malicious' and aimed at her
Mrs Green told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire: 'Every day, people misgender my daughter online, that wasn't uncommon. What was uncommon was this was a journalist who had a public platform who used that to send very malicious and nasty messages.
'It's not just the misgendering, it's actually the context that she puts it into and that she calls me a child abuser... it's also the stuff around mutilation and castration. It was the really damaging things she said about me.'
Mrs Green was asked whether she thought that, though upsetting, the tweets were a matter for police.
She said that was up to the police and prosecutors, but as a worker for a charity which advises others to report hate crime, she felt she should report it.
She said she is now withdrawing her complaint, adding: 'If I had continued my complaint then
