A man who wore an “I’m with stupid” T-shirt near Liberal National party campaigners during the Queensland election campaign has had a public nuisance charge against him dropped in court.



Iain Fogerty, of New Farm, was arrested on 9 January after police received complaints he had inserted himself among campaigners in Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley. More than 10 police officers attended the incident, which happened in the first week of the Queensland state election campaign.

Fogerty, who operated the now-defunct Not Campbell Newman parody account on Twitter, last month pleaded not guilty to being a public nuisance. Magistrate Chris Callaghan on Wednesday dropped the charge, citing a lack of evidence.

Fogerty has agreed to donate the “I’m with stupid” shirt to the State Library of Queensland, where it will be kept with other election material.



Fogerty thanked his lawyer, Peter Shields, and said he had been overwhelmed by thousands of supportive messages.



“The Young LNP members taking the extraordinary and quite frankly stupid step of calling the police shows how politically naive and fragile they are,” he said.



The group’s outrage over a “dumb slogan” shirt showed they were not suited to the pressure of politics, Fogerty said.



“I suggest they find a hobby more suitable to their delicate nature and leave elections to those with a more robust spine.”