Ronan Parke 'fix' inquiry is dropped by police as it may have been cooked up to boost Britain's Got Talent ratings
*MKILETEWA HAPA NA FLORA LYIMO DESIGNER*- As Tweeter 'UKLegion' is suspected of being mystery blogger, Cowell arrives on BGT set... with mum
- Parke ends up in second place after Scottish singer Jai McDowall, 24, wins - with just 2.5 per cent more votes
Centre of the storm: A mystery blogger claimed BGT was rigged so Ronan Parke (above) would win. The winner has turned out to be fellow singer Jai McDowall. Parke came second"
The show was thrown into crisis last week when an anonymous blogger, claiming to work for Sony Music UK, posted a 2,500-word essay on a website alleging the show had been rigged for 12-year-old singer Ronan Parke to win.
Show bosses immediately released a robust defence and warned they would take legal action to 'prevent further publication of these unfounded allegations', which included claims that Ronan had met Simon Cowell two years ago and already had a management deal with his company, SyCo.
Hours later, lawyers for Britain's Got Talent and X Factor boss Cowell, 51, visited a West London police station to report an allegation of malicious communication, a criminal offence punishable by up to six months in prison.
But yesterday police indicated they had no plans to begin a formal investigation.
Scotland Yard sources said it was 'overwhelmingly unlikely' that they would look into the origins of the message which was posted from within the UK.
The move came as a police spokesman appeared to suggest the blog had been posted as part of a publicity stunt to boost ratings for the popular ITV programme.
The spokesman said: 'We had a complaint at a police station in our Kensington and Chelsea borough.
'It was made to us as [a complaint about] malicious communication.
'Malicious communication is a genuine complaint. It is a crime.
'Theoretically you would have to work out who'd posted the malicious communication and go from there.
'To be honest, it seems as if everyone's making a big song and dance about this. Heaven forbid somebody would do something like this for publicity.'
Despite the personalised attack, talented Ronan went into last night's final as favourite to win the competition and the show's £100,000 prize.
However, he ended up in second place after Scottish singer Jai McDowall, 24, was the shock winner - with just 2.5 per cent more votes than the schoolboy.
The show must go on: Simon Cowell arrived at the final with his mum, Julie"
The schoolboy from Norwich, who has been compared to Canadian singer Justin Bieber, was said to be calm and unaffected by all the attention as he prepared to perform Because Of You by American Idol winner Kelly Clarkson on last night's show.
Other highlights on the show included former Pussycat Dolls singer Nicole Scherzinger -- girlfriend of Formula 1 driver Lewis Hamilton -- performing her new single Right There, a week after replacing Cheryl Cole as a judge on X Factor USA.
On Friday night Cowell used the Britain's Got Talent live show to tell the show's 11.4 million viewers of his anger at what he described as 'a deliberate smear campaign' against the series and Ronan.
He said: 'I have got to address something that has been in the Press today.
'There has been an allegation made in the papers -- not in the papers actually, on the internet by somebody -- that Ronan Parke had a previous recording contract with my record label and that I had met him beforehand, both of which are complete and utter lies.'
He added: 'This is a deliberate smear campaign and it is my job to ensure that, whoever this liar is, is exposed and this kid is treated in the same way as everyone else.'
Cowell, who last night arrived for the finals with his mother Julie, is said to have assembled his own team of computer experts to investigate.
Show sources claimed that leads suggested the blogger was in Germany and that police there were now involved in the case.
Mystery: The Paste.It website after the blog was dropped - and ukLegion's tweet"
Mr Troy also confirmed that the blog had been posted by somebody in the UK using a connection to the internet from a cable TV provider.
A strongly worded communication from lawyers acting on behalf of RCA music group and SyCo entertainment was emailed to JustPaste.It demanding the immediate removal of the blog and an undertaking
'not to make the posting (or any substantially similar posting) available on your website or any other site controlled by you'.
The email went on to demand that Mr Troy 'disclose to us the identity and contact details of the author of the posting in order that we can confirm that it has not in fact been written by a Sony executive.'
But Mr Troy has so far refused to co-operate with the company's demands.
Chants encounter: Ronan and Jai during the final of Britain's Got Talent
He said: 'They are asking us to give the internet address of the author but we won't because no one from the police has been trying to contact us.' The blog was removed on Friday and replaced by a message that read: 'Removed due to a claim from Simco Limited (SyCo) and Sony Music Entertainment UK Limited (Sony)'.
But despite the swift action it is believed that the original blog had already been read by more than a million online users.
The blog, titled Britain's Got Talent -- Ronan Parke Connection, first appeared on JustPaste.It at 7pm on Wednesday.
An hour later the first reference to the blog appeared on social media site Twitter, posted by a user called @ukLegion. It read: 'An industry insider at #BGT spills his guts on how this year has been totally stiched [sic] up for Ronan Parke to win'.
The comments followed a series of unprovoked attacks on Ronan by @ukLegion, whose Twitter account has now been closed.
At 1.51am on Wednesday, 17 hours before the online blog appeared,
@ukLegion wrote on Twitter: 'Don't waste your money -- #bgt is fixed. Cowell first met Ronan Parke when he was 10 -- believe me he was always gonna win this year.'
On Tuesday they wrote: 'Lot's of 12 yo's [year old's] can sing, but their parents aren't f****** morons, unlike Ronan Parke's, who put their kid on nat tv.'
Believing @ukLegion to be the person behind the JustPaste.It blog, one Twitter user replied: 'So it appears that whether you love or hate Ronan Parke, you certainly have an agenda about him.
'And so it seems massively disingenuous to claim you just stumbled upon the article and tweeted it.'
The identity details of @ukLegion contain a picture of a skull and crossbones and the user describes themselves as a 'coder and hacker'.
Yesterday Twitter -- which does not reveal the identity of its users -- refused to unmask @ukLegion.
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