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Title: "Internet troll" jailed
Post by: bijou on October 30, 2010, 12:58:55 PM

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An "internet troll" who posted obscene messages on Facebook sites set up in memory of dead people has been jailed.

Colm Coss, of Ardwick, Manchester, posted on a memorial page for Big Brother star Jade Goody and a tribute site to John Paul Massey, a Liverpool boy mauled to death by a dog.

The 36-year-old "preyed on bereaved families" for his "own pleasure", Manchester Magistrates Court heard.

He was jailed for 18 weeks for sending "malicious communications".

The posts included comments claiming he had sex with the victims' dead bodies, the court heard. ...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-11650593

Title: Re: "Internet troll" jailed
Post by: Eupher on October 30, 2010, 03:48:25 PM

Pretty amazing, actually. Usually we read accounts of how victims and their families are punished by the legal system for having the audacity of being in the wrong place at the right time.

Perps usually win their countersuits, don't they?

Oops, silly me.  :thatsright:

This assclown is appealing, right? There's still an opportunity for the victims and their families to be punished.

Title: Re: "Internet troll" jailed
Post by: true_blood on October 30, 2010, 04:53:00 PM

I hope he rots! :censored:

Title: Re: "Internet troll" jailed
Post by: Wretched Excess on October 30, 2010, 05:04:04 PM

wow.  they threw him in jail for being an asshole?

Title: Re: "Internet troll" jailed
Post by: NHSparky on October 30, 2010, 09:03:09 PM

Too bad the Phelps don't protest in GB once in a while.