One such tweet stated "When someone brakes on a home there is broken glass where is your plausible proof that anyone was raped". Green - who now states that these remarks stemmed from 'emotion' - told The Sunday Times that he regrets the comments

"I was most certainly not thinking, not considering whom I might offend. And to those many people, however many or however few, I’d like to take this opportunity to apologise again.”

The tweets which were initially posted in 2012 led to an outpouring of complaints on the internet regarding the comments