Alan Davies: QI comedian facing legal action over Lord McAlpine tweet He had a look back at the re-tweets [and] didn't realise the one that linked to articles online mentioned McAlpine's name at the end. They suggested the comedian had simply been "careless." The tweets followed the BBC Two programme's investigation, in which a victim of sexual abuse wrongly accused a Tory peer of being a child molester. Lawyers for the former Conservative Party treasurer have announced legal action for libel against a "very long list" of those who repeated the false claims using Twitter. The 70 year-old was not named on the programme but was identified quickly online. It later emerged he was the victim of mistaken identity. Experts warned the case could potentially involve the largest number of defendants in British legal history. Davies posted the offending "tweet" at 7.05pm on November 2, before it was re-tweeted 12 times and "favourited" on a further six occasions by his fans. Three minutes later a user called ToniKZ replied, saying "lord mcalpine [sic], some would say" together with posts to three web links. Davies, who lives in North London, was then one of 18 people to re-tweet the response naming Lord McAlpine. A prominent Sky News presenter also replied to his tweet suggesting a "Simple google [sic] search does it." Davies, who is thought to have spent much of yesterday with his family and two small children, declined to comment when approached by The Daily Telegraph. His spokesman said: "We currently have no comment to make about this." Among those making reference to the false claims included a reporter for Al Jazeera, the television network, a freelance writer for The Guardian, the managing director of a public relations firm and a former barrister. The peer is expected to take a tougher line with "principal tweeters" such as Mrs Bercow, the wife of the Commons Speaker John Bercow. Confirming she had received a letter from the peer's lawyers, she accused them of being "ambulance chasers" and "big bullies." Her lawyers approached McAlpine's legal team on Friday but were given "short shrift," it was reported