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Woman uses Twitter to attack and threaten the McCanns, unmasked by Sky news last week, found dead today:

http://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/internet-troll-who-targeted-mccanns-found-dead-in-hotel-room-30639852.html

When asked why she was using her Twitter account to attack the McCanns, who live with their nine-year-old twins, in Rothley, Leicestershire, Mrs Leyland said: 'I'm entitled to do that.'

Wow.

Tragic. Some of the stuff she wrote was very nasty. My God, poor lady, but why do some people think the internet isn't real or you have a different identity? Jesus.

I thought the standard LFGSS view was that if they could just have met up at drinks then it would all have been hunky-dory.

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Have you tried getting a babysitter?

What would you say if a Sky News crew turned up on your door and called you out on some things you'd said on the internet? I doubt she was thinking straight.

She actually came back later and asked them in for a chat off camera where she said she hoped she hadn't broken the law and was much more contrite.

They said themselves in their own report that she wasn't the worst by far. So why did they single her out? Probably because she was the only one who they could track down somehow or the only one who was in when they called.

The Special Report in question pretty much stated that she had broken the law and was very clear that they were passing a file of evidence to the police.

The worst kind of gutter journalism. If what has happened is as it appears (it hasn't been officially confirmed yet) I hope those involved can sleep at night.

I'd like to be more sympathetic but it's also true the the kind of heartless, anonymous, abuse she indulged in has also driven its victims to suicide. She wasn't set up, she wasn't tricked, she was unmasked. Sometimes people can't live with the guilt at what they have done. There's an easy way to avoid that.

So do you think it's ok for the media to present someone as guilty when the CPS hasn't even decided if it's in the public interest to prosecute them or not? Just pass the file to the police (which they could do with anything) then carry on as if they have been found guilty?

Why was it in the public interest for her specifically to be named, outed and interviewed when they admitted themselves that she wasn't the only one and wasn't the worst?

They should have a read of their own editorial guidelines, specifically 10. Fairness, but by passing a file to the police one could argue that a case was potentially in progress, in which case 7. Contempt would also apply.

Still, good that Sky are sticking to their guns and covering the story themselves:

https://news.google.co.uk/news/story?cf=all&ned=uk&hl=en&topic=h&ncl=dMMT7VvZZBy86ZMIdyOSWdnRLyMzM

Oh, wait...

http://news.sky.com/story/1347948/mccann-abuser-believed-to-have-been-found-dead

This morning's Mirror:

Madeleine McCann internet trolls are devoid of humanity – much like the people who abducted her

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/madeleine-mccann-internet-trolls-devoid-4379575#ixzz3FJ7DUv1n

Horribly prescient.

I'd like to be more sympathetic but it's also true the the kind of heartless, anonymous, abuse she indulged in has also driven its victims to suicide. She wasn't set up, she wasn't tricked, she was unmasked. Sometimes people can't live with the guilt at what they have done. There's an easy way to avoid that.

I wish it could be so simple ... there will be reasons why she did it in the first place, and they might well point to her being vulnerable herself. Needless to say, that's not to excuse on-line abuse, but when people abuse, even 'just' on-line, they have often in the past been victims themselves and suicide or self-harm are very real possibilities when the option of releasing some of this by abusing others is withdrawn (old repressed fears can be released that can be impossible to deal with) and/or, as may well have been the case here, the heavy-handed approach by some journalist bullies can be deeply intimidating.

Yes Sky got there in the end. Probably because of the huge amount of noise on social media complaining that they weren't covering it.

Cowardly cruel and depraved yes, but 'devoid of humanity' and comparing trolls to child abductors? Gosh.

Tear gas all the reporters is what I say.

What would you say if a Sky News crew turned up on your door and called you out on some things you'd said on the internet? I doubt she was thinking straight.

No, I agree. It's very sad all round.

But nevertheless for a human to say to somebody that they're entitled to anonymously hound other humans that happen to be famous - in this case for having a (probably) dead child, for fuck's sake - for their own entertainment is something that makes me profoundly uncomfortable. No matter how put-on-the-spot you feel, you wouldn't say something like that unless you truly did feel some kind of entitlement to that behaviour.

Child abandonment...still think that the McCanns are involved in their childs death.

Been trolling Mail comments:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2781305/Police-hunt-saboteur-left-hundreds-drawing-pins-cycle-track-bikers-racing-speeds-70mph.html?offset=100&max=100&jumpTo=comment-65484384#comment-65484384

harry smith, norwich, United Kingdom, 2 hours ago

My alsatian's paw got infected by a piece of metal someone left in the road. His blood got infected and it was kinder to put him down. He was my best friend for 12 years. We need to catch the monster who did this.

96 likes 17 dislikes. 17. I loved that mutt.

Say no to Daily Mail links.

LSE in institutionalised twattery shocker.

wearning: contains dailyheil

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2781919/Top-London-university-caught-new-sexism-row-freshers-week-leaflets-branded-women-slags-trollops-crumpets.html

#iblametheteachers

Rugby club in bunch of baying wankers shocker.

No one could have predicted this. No one.