McCanns Targeted By 'Venomous' Internet Trolls

[Yasojack]

There's something about this couple that ain't right.

The case should be closed.

The Metropolitan Police is investigating a catalogue of vile internet abuse targeting the family of Madeleine McCann including death threats, Sky News can reveal.

Officers are in talks with the Crown Prosecution Service after being handed a dossier of more than 80 pages of Tweets, Facebook posts and messages on online forums aimed at Kate and Gerry McCann.

Over the past few years hundreds of shocking messages have been posted by 'trolls' who believe - despite no evidence - that the McCanns had some involvement in the disappearance of their daughter in Portugal in 2007.

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These include suggestions that the McCanns should be tortured and killed and calls for them to "burn in hell".

Some messages are even directed at Madeleine's younger siblings, now aged nine.

Manipulated images involving the McCanns - many of them graphic - are also in wide circulation online.

One troll - who uses the Twitter identity "Sweepyface" and has posted dozens of anti-McCann messages using the #mccann hashtag - was confronted by Sky News.

When asked about her use of social media to attack the couple, she replied: "I'm entitled to."

The dossier - compiled by members of the public alarmed at the online treatment of the McCanns and shown to Sky News - calls on police and MPs to act to crack down on such abuse.

The Met wrote to the campaigners: "In consultation with the Crown Prosecution Service and the McCann family the material will now be assessed and decisions made as to what further action if any should be undertaken."

Among the messages identified in the dossier is an exchange on a message board which reads: "These 2 should burn in hell"; "I will supply the petrol"; "I'll supply the lighter - happily".


Other posts include: "We need some numbers for some assassins on taps", "I hope that the McCanns are living in total misery" and "I want to see them smashed up the back of a bus or trampled by horses".

In one of her tweets "Sweepyface" called for the McCanns to suffer "for the rest of their miserable lives".

In addition to threats and abuse, several trolls have claimed to live nearby to the McCanns in Leicestershire and reported on their movements.

The campaigner spearheading the appeal - who has asked to remain anonymous - told Sky News: "We're very worried that it's only going to take somebody to act out of some of these discussions, some of the threats that have been made, and we couldn't live with ourselves if that happened and we had done nothing."

Author Anthony Summers, whose book Looking for Madeleine was published last month, said: "There is a campaign of hatred against the parents.

"It is venomous and vitriolic, most of it done by cowards. We are taken aback by the extent of the sheer evil behind it all."

McCanns Targeted By 'Venomous' Internet Trolls

[harrybarracuda]

Sky actually confronted some old termagant and told her she's being investigated by the police.

Looking at the shit on her twitter feed, I'm sure she must post here, a right fucking curtain twitcher.

[buriramboy]

Whether they had anything to do with it or not they have certainly milked it for everything they can get and it has made them extremely wealthy which is what I think gets most peoples backs up. And the photo fit of a bloke they were looking for was a spitting image of Gerry McCann.

[charleyboy]

and it has made them extremely wealthy

C'mon, let's see some fookin' proof!

[Yasojack]

The amount of info is unbelievable.

NHS: The McCanns' Abuse of Power: 100 reasons why Madeleine McCann was not abducted

[Yasojack]

how about 500'000 from the express.

and it has made them extremely wealthy

C'mon, let's see some fookin' proof!

[Necron99]

And the savings from having one less mouth to feed...

[Yasojack]

ouch necron

[buriramboy]

and it has made them extremely wealthy

C'mon, let's see some fookin' proof!

Do a google search and you'll have hundreds of articles to choose from whatever you consider a reliable source.

[buriramboy]

At the end of the day the McCanns went out for dinner/on the piss leaving 3 infants on their own the oldest of which was 4 years old, why the fuk have they never been charged with neglect? My daughter is 11 and I won't leave her on her own if I go out.

[Yasojack]

Totally agree.

[baldrick]

the numbers of sad cnuts on the internet festering in their pointless existances lashing out at others for some brief twisted relief from their condition is only going to increase

it will never be stopped as the underlying condition cannot be cured

thus people have to learn to ignore it

[Chittychangchang]

^^
^^^
I concur.

This part of the story has always needled me from the start.
What sort of parent leaves kids on there own!!!

[Kurgen]

In one of her tweets "Sweepyface" called for the McCanns to suffer "for the rest of their miserable lives".

I read on The Mail Online that Sweepyface topped herself yesterday in a room at The Marriott Hotel Leicester.

[kingwilly]

'Twitter troll' who abused Madeleine McCann's parents found dead - Telegraph

[The Ghost Of The Moog]

In one of her tweets "Sweepyface" called for the McCanns to suffer "for the rest of their miserable lives".

I read on The Mail Online that Sweepyface topped herself yesterday in a room at The Marriott Hotel Leicester.

Yes, her identity was revealed and she did the honourable and right thing in the end.

Anonymous insults on the internet. Tut tut.

[kingwilly]

In one of her tweets "Sweepyface" called for the McCanns to suffer "for the rest of their miserable lives".

I read on The Mail Online that Sweepyface topped herself yesterday in a room at The Marriott Hotel Leicester.

Yes, her identity was revealed and she did the honourable and right thing in the end.

Anonymous insults on the internet. Tut tut.

honourable ?

Not so sure about that, certainly she was a vicious cow, but i don't think she had to die for it.

[zygote1]

honourable ?
Not so sure about that, certainly she was a vicious cow, but i don't think she had to die for it.

Typical of bullies she was a coward to the end. No it wasn't honourable, but reading some of the messages it appears that she was not mentally stable. The suicide was just another manifestation of her underlying mental illness.

[The Ghost Of The Moog]

In one of her tweets "Sweepyface" called for the McCanns to suffer "for the rest of their miserable lives".

I read on The Mail Online that Sweepyface topped herself yesterday in a room at The Marriott Hotel Leicester.

Yes, her identity was revealed and she did the honourable and right thing in the end.

Anonymous insults on the internet. Tut tut.

honourable ?

Not so sure about that, certainly she was a vicious cow, but i don't think she had to die for it.

Willy. You must promise us that you won't kill yourself if your true identity ever slips out.

It ain't worth it !

[The Ghost Of The Moog]

What do members think?

Is her suicide just a case of 'live by the sword die by the sword'? Or is that too melodramatic, and she was simply a mentally shaky person hounded by a news agency over remarks that the McCanns said they didn't even read.

[Yasojack]

live by the sword die by the sword.

Silly woman didn't understand IPs can be traced.

[harrybarracuda]

Obviously realised she was going to spend the rest of her life being slagged off in hushed whispers wherever she went.

Ironic, huh?

[Chittychangchang]

BBC News: McCann Twitter troll found dead.

Fukcing hell, say what you like about the McCanns but they don't fuck about do they?

[buriramboy]

SKY news who outed sweepyface's identity not even mentioning her death on the news, I've only seen a few of her tweets and can't see anything other that she was just expressing an opinion shared by many others. Are the media right to unmask a persons identity when they haven't even been questioned by the police yet alone charged with a crime?

[Fozzy]

What do members think?

Is her suicide just a case of 'live by the sword die by the sword'? Or is that too melodramatic, and she was simply a mentally shaky person hounded by a news agency over remarks that the McCanns said they didn't even read.

The latter. No loss to society either way.