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Nigel Oldfield
Sep 15, 2011, 1:19:43 PM9/15/11
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Madeleine McCann is target of trolls
By NICK FRANCIS, ANTONELLA LAZZERI and LUKE HEIGHTON
Published: Today
CRUEL internet "trolls" are tormenting the family of missing Madeleine
McCann, it has emerged.
The revelation follows the jailing of a sicko who posted videos and
messages mocking dead girls.
The Sun today urges our readers to combat the menace of trolls.
Our Target A Troll campaign is being launched amid revelations that
grieving families of a host of high-profile crime victims and
celebrities have been plagued by weirdos making "fun" of tragedy.
Those rocked by vile web comments and videos include relatives of
Madeleine McCann, Amy Winehouse, Jade Goody, Sarah Payne and murdered
teenagers Sally Anne Bowman and Jimmy Mizen.
Trolls lurk on net favourites like Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, Bebo and
Formspring.
Amy Winehouse ... sickos posted disgusting YouTube clip
But they can be fought if they are reported to website administrators
or, in extreme cases, to police. The Sun is also calling on internet
service providers to hand over details of trolls to cops. The shocking
list of victims came to light after Tuesday's court case in which
twisted Sean Duffy, 25, was jailed for posting vile "jokes" about a
string of dead girls.
Kate and Gerry McCann, the parents of missing Maddie — who vanished in
2007 a few days before her fourth birthday — have been persecuted for years.
Jade Goody ... troll posted filthy sexual messages
A hoax Facebook page set up last year was called: "If 2 million people
join this group I will give back Maddie McCann." A web campaign to shut
it down was successful — but not before it was also trolled by a
Facebook user who wrote: "Who agrees the parents did it?"
The McCanns' spokesman Clarence Mitchell said: "There is constant
activity by these ghouls. They have accused Kate and Gerry of child
neglect and worse, and covering up Madeleine's death.
"All the photos of Madeleine they released have been doctored in the
most horrible way. One post tried to orchestrate a campaign where dog
excrement was sent through their letterbox."
Mr Mitchell added: "The trouble is that it is very hard to stop these
people. They hide away behind their computer screens, blogging away."
Troll victims ... from left, Sally Anne Bowman, Sarah Payne and Jimmy Mizen
Tragic singer Amy Winehouse became a focus for trolls after her death in
July.
YouTube sickos posted a video called "Bye Amy love the trolls" in which
they superimposed her face on a toy troll with needles in her hair.
A viciously inaccurate message on website memebase.com read: "Amy
Winehouse, sang about not going to rehab, then OD'd."
Perverted Colm Cross, 36, was given 18 weeks in jail for trolling on
tribute pages for late Big Brother star Jade Goody, a cancer victim.
Cross, of Manchester, boasted of imaginary acts of necrophilia — a
sexual attraction to corpses. The prosecutor at his trial said: "He
found the comments amusing. He said they gave him no sexual arousal but
he enjoyed the comments made in reaction." Sara Payne, whose
eight-year-old daughter Sarah was murdered by sex beast Roy Whiting in
2000, has been put through untold torment.
She branded trolls "unspeakably depraved and cruel".
And her close friend Shy Keenan, who runs anti-paedophile organisation
Phoenix Chief Advocates with Sara, said: "She has been subjected to the
most vile abuse online.
"When she was recovering from a stroke, they were posting messages
saying she should have been raped and killed like her daughter was. They
also said it was Sarah's fault she was killed because she got in
Whiting's van."
Ghouls have also hounded Linda Bowman, whose model daughter Sally Anne
was raped and stabbed to death in 2005, just after her 18th birthday.
Linda said: "A troll pasted Sally Anne's photo on the body of a naked
porn picture of a woman and posted it on tribute websites with vile
messages.
"Another posted, 'She deserved to die dressed like that and I'd have
given her one'." The mum, of Croydon, South London, added: "I have cried
buckets over what these people have done."
The family of schoolboy Jimmy Mizen — murdered in Lee, South-East
London, just after his 16th birthday in 2008 — told how a Twitter group
posted "terrible things" about him.
The lad's elder brother Billy said: "The culprits definitely wanted the
family to see what they were saying. They need to realise their actions
are extremely hurtful."
Dad Robert Mullaney's 15-year-old son Tom hanged himself after a school
argument in Birmingham last year. He told how a picture of the lad with
a noose around his neck appeared online.
A caption with it read: "Hang in there Tom."
Last night Sherry Adhami, of the charity Beatbullying, called for
government action to stop the trolls. She said: "It's time that
preventing bullying at source is placed higher on their agenda."
n.fr...@the-sun.co.uk
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3814972/Madeleine-McCann-is-target-of-trolls.html
You really are a SFB Nick (just trolling - no offence or malice intended).
WM
By NICK FRANCIS, ANTONELLA LAZZERI and LUKE HEIGHTON
Published: Today
CRUEL internet "trolls" are tormenting the family of missing Madeleine
McCann, it has emerged.
The revelation follows the jailing of a sicko who posted videos and
messages mocking dead girls.
The Sun today urges our readers to combat the menace of trolls.
Our Target A Troll campaign is being launched amid revelations that
grieving families of a host of high-profile crime victims and
celebrities have been plagued by weirdos making "fun" of tragedy.
Those rocked by vile web comments and videos include relatives of
Madeleine McCann, Amy Winehouse, Jade Goody, Sarah Payne and murdered
teenagers Sally Anne Bowman and Jimmy Mizen.
Trolls lurk on net favourites like Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, Bebo and
Formspring.
Amy Winehouse ... sickos posted disgusting YouTube clip
But they can be fought if they are reported to website administrators
or, in extreme cases, to police. The Sun is also calling on internet
service providers to hand over details of trolls to cops. The shocking
list of victims came to light after Tuesday's court case in which
twisted Sean Duffy, 25, was jailed for posting vile "jokes" about a
string of dead girls.
Kate and Gerry McCann, the parents of missing Maddie — who vanished in
2007 a few days before her fourth birthday — have been persecuted for years.
Jade Goody ... troll posted filthy sexual messages
A hoax Facebook page set up last year was called: "If 2 million people
join this group I will give back Maddie McCann." A web campaign to shut
it down was successful — but not before it was also trolled by a
Facebook user who wrote: "Who agrees the parents did it?"
The McCanns' spokesman Clarence Mitchell said: "There is constant
activity by these ghouls. They have accused Kate and Gerry of child
neglect and worse, and covering up Madeleine's death.
"All the photos of Madeleine they released have been doctored in the
most horrible way. One post tried to orchestrate a campaign where dog
excrement was sent through their letterbox."
Mr Mitchell added: "The trouble is that it is very hard to stop these
people. They hide away behind their computer screens, blogging away."
Troll victims ... from left, Sally Anne Bowman, Sarah Payne and Jimmy Mizen
Tragic singer Amy Winehouse became a focus for trolls after her death in
July.
YouTube sickos posted a video called "Bye Amy love the trolls" in which
they superimposed her face on a toy troll with needles in her hair.
A viciously inaccurate message on website memebase.com read: "Amy
Winehouse, sang about not going to rehab, then OD'd."
Perverted Colm Cross, 36, was given 18 weeks in jail for trolling on
tribute pages for late Big Brother star Jade Goody, a cancer victim.
Cross, of Manchester, boasted of imaginary acts of necrophilia — a
sexual attraction to corpses. The prosecutor at his trial said: "He
found the comments amusing. He said they gave him no sexual arousal but
he enjoyed the comments made in reaction." Sara Payne, whose
eight-year-old daughter Sarah was murdered by sex beast Roy Whiting in
2000, has been put through untold torment.
She branded trolls "unspeakably depraved and cruel".
And her close friend Shy Keenan, who runs anti-paedophile organisation
Phoenix Chief Advocates with Sara, said: "She has been subjected to the
most vile abuse online.
"When she was recovering from a stroke, they were posting messages
saying she should have been raped and killed like her daughter was. They
also said it was Sarah's fault she was killed because she got in
Whiting's van."
Ghouls have also hounded Linda Bowman, whose model daughter Sally Anne
was raped and stabbed to death in 2005, just after her 18th birthday.
Linda said: "A troll pasted Sally Anne's photo on the body of a naked
porn picture of a woman and posted it on tribute websites with vile
messages.
"Another posted, 'She deserved to die dressed like that and I'd have
given her one'." The mum, of Croydon, South London, added: "I have cried
buckets over what these people have done."
The family of schoolboy Jimmy Mizen — murdered in Lee, South-East
London, just after his 16th birthday in 2008 — told how a Twitter group
posted "terrible things" about him.
The lad's elder brother Billy said: "The culprits definitely wanted the
family to see what they were saying. They need to realise their actions
are extremely hurtful."
Dad Robert Mullaney's 15-year-old son Tom hanged himself after a school
argument in Birmingham last year. He told how a picture of the lad with
a noose around his neck appeared online.
A caption with it read: "Hang in there Tom."
Last night Sherry Adhami, of the charity Beatbullying, called for
government action to stop the trolls. She said: "It's time that
preventing bullying at source is placed higher on their agenda."
n.fr...@the-sun.co.uk
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3814972/Madeleine-McCann-is-target-of-trolls.html
You really are a SFB Nick (just trolling - no offence or malice intended).
WM
harry
Sep 15, 2011, 1:26:11 PM9/15/11
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On Sep 15, 6:19 pm, Nigel Oldfield <WMCriticalEstop...@googlemail.com>
wrote:
> n.fran...@the-sun.co.uk
>
> http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3814972/Madeleine-McCann-is...
wrote:
>
> http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3814972/Madeleine-McCann-is...
>
> You really are a SFB Nick (just trolling - no offence or malice intended).
>
> WM
The simple answer is not to look.
> You really are a SFB Nick (just trolling - no offence or malice intended).
>
> WM
Nigel Oldfield
Sep 15, 2011, 1:31:14 PM9/15/11
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On 15/09/2011 18:26, harry wrote:
> have been plagued by weirdos making "fun" of tragedy.
What and miss own-goal classics like "... have been plagued by weirdos
> have been plagued by weirdos making "fun" of tragedy.
making "fun" of tragedy."?
Never, I say.
WM
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