Alleged McCann troll found dead after being doorstepped by Sky News

Birneybau · 06-10-2014 03:01PM #1

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/oct/06/sky-saddened-death-alleged-mccann-troll-brenda-Leyland

Surprised there was no thread about this already.

Last week, Sky News called to Brenda Leyland's home, confronting her about tweets directed towards the McCann's, I'm unsure about the content but I imagine them to be abusive.

They informed her that a file had been forwarded to the police, she replied 'Fair Enough', then she went missing and was found dead in a hotel room.

It was said that she was not 'the worst of the alleged online abusers'.

Sky News in yet another vile move, effectively vigilantism, resulting in a woman's death.

Could they not have just left in the police's hands?

Sure, where's the ratings in that.

daveirl · 06-10-2014 03:04PM

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darkpagandeath · 06-10-2014 03:05PM

Sounds like a troubled person to me who could have gone down this route without help.

Birneybau · 06-10-2014 03:06PM

darkpagandeath wrote: »

Sounds like a troubled person to me who could have gone down this route without help.

I do agree with this, I mean, a grown woman sending abusive tweets but why pick her out when she was one of many.

Birneybau · 06-10-2014 03:07PM

daveirl wrote: »

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I'm just talking about Sky in general, the journalist routing through a suitcase at the plane crash site in Ukraine also comes to mind.

54kroc · 06-10-2014 03:08PM

Sad to see someone die.

Much as I don't like Sky news I'd like them to turn up to the door of all the vile people who trolled the McCann's on the net thinking they were anonymous .

BoJack Horseman · 06-10-2014 03:09PM

Already a thread on it.

http://touch.boards.ie/thread/2057302625/5

Already closed.

anncoates · 06-10-2014 03:10PM

So somebody that (allegedly) persecutes people for likes online can't take being persecuted on TV for ratings?

Pumpkinseeds · 06-10-2014 03:22PM

Death by Sky. I noticed they haven't made any mention of her suicide though. Showing up on her doorstep and publicly identifying her was ridiculous and was neither newsworthy or in the public interest. Sure she was a troll, but harassing an elderly woman was a disgusting thing to do. Sky seem to be making a habit of trial by media. It should have been left to the courts to decide what to do with her.

Timberrrrrrrr · 06-10-2014 03:25PM

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

Death by Sky. I noticed they haven't made any mention of her suicide though. Showing up on her doorstep and publicly identifying her was ridiculous and was neither newsworthy or in the public interest. Sure she was a troll, but harassing an elderly woman was a disgusting thing to do. Sky seem to be making a habit of trial by media. It should have been left to the courts to decide what to do with her.

They do mention it

http://news.sky.com/story/1347948/mccann-abuser-found-dead-in-hotel-room

Saying that i think the way they outed her wasn't on. Have no sympathy for her or any other trolls who hounded the McCanns like that but feel for her family. Am sure this won't be the end of it and we will be hearing about a lawsuit sooner or later.

darkpagandeath · 06-10-2014 03:30PM

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

Death by Sky. I noticed they haven't made any mention of her suicide though. Showing up on her doorstep and publicly identifying her was ridiculous and was neither newsworthy or in the public interest. Sure she was a troll, but harassing an elderly woman was a disgusting thing to do. Sky seem to be making a habit of trial by media. It should have been left to the courts to decide what to do with her.

So being old removes your responsibility for your actions now ? And court appearances are in the public domain where do you think half the media get their information from. What if this was one of these cases recently were a young person has been basically trolled to death via committing suicide would people be saying the same thing leave the people responsible for the death alone.

06-10-2014 03:43PM

Just discussing this at the moment, please bear with us.

Alleged McCann troll found dead after being doorstepped by Sky News

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