Mail: 'Respectable' Mother Of Three Is Vile Online Troll ~ And Partner Is, Too

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2146580/She-looks-utterly-respectable-But-mother-accused-wicked-troll-posts-vile-abuse-online-And-frame-The-self-confessed-troll-lives-.html

She looks utterly respectable. But this mother is accused of being a wicked 'troll' who posts vile abuse online (And who put her in the frame? The self-confessed troll she lives with...)
By PAUL BRACCHI and TANITH CAREY
PUBLISHED: 22:38, 18 May 2012 | UPDATED: 22:39, 18 May 2012
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Hiding anything? Kirsty Chapman looks like a respectable mother - but her photograph appears next to a pseudonym on Facebook that sends vile abuse to memorial pages

Appearances, they say, can be deceptive. Kirsty Chapman (blonde, slim, pretty) is perhaps living proof of this.
To the outside world, she is a respectable housewife and mother of three. Most days she can be seen out and about in fashionable jeans wheeling a pushchair near her home in Wales.

Remember these details — in particular, the fact she has three children. They make what you are about to read all the more shocking.
For Miss Chapman’s photograph has become chillingly familiar on the internet. Often her Facebook photograph has appeared next to a pseudonym. One of these is ‘Percy’, whose activities have become notorious — targeting the bereaved with vile insults on Facebook tribute sites. It would be hard to imagine a more cruel or sadistic ‘hobby’.
One such memorial site was created for 16-year-old Megan Moore, who died when she tripped and fell under a train at Angmering station near Littlehampton in West Sussex in 2009.
Among the countless (sincere) messages of condolence for the hugely popular Megan was one from ‘Percy’: ‘Did this whore really have over 10 thousand friends?’ it said. ‘Or is that her client list?’

‘Percy’ has also joked about abusing Madeleine McCann. The precise wording cannot be repeated in a family newspaper.

The online slang for individuals who specialise in this kind of abuse is ‘troll’. They get their perverse kicks by leaving malicious outpourings on discussion forums, chatrooms, blogs and, most commonly, memorial sites, with the sole intention of causing pain and grief.



Miss Chapman denies she is Percy. Her photograph, posted next to Percy’s sickening attacks, were put there by someone else, she says. It would be easy for anyone to take her photo from Facebook and it would certainly take someone with a twisted ego to put their own picture next to such abuse. So is she being trolled herself?


Perhaps she has made an official complaint to Facebook? ‘No,’ said her boyfriend Darren Burton. ‘What the f*** can she [Kirsty] do about it?’
In fact, there is a procedure for removing fake identities from Facebook. To begin the process, users can click on the ‘help’ button after logging onto the social networking site, then choose the option marked: ‘Report abuse or policy violations.’



Despicable: Self-confessed 'internet troll' Darren Burton has put his partner Chapman in the frame
Some might think Miss Chapman’s failure to do so is surprising.
Most revealing, perhaps, is the fact she lives with Darren Burton, who says he met her trolling and who is, by his own admission, a serial ‘troll’. His alter ego, or internet persona, is ‘Nimrod Severn’.
Burton, a railway worker, and Miss Chapman have been together for more than two years and are believed to be engaged.
Among the memorial websites Burton has targeted are those of singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse and murdered student Anuj Bidve, gunned down in Salford, Greater Manchester, on Boxing Day.
‘Rot in p***’ is the message Burton left for those grieving Anuj’s death.
When Burton was once challenged online about the hurt and upset he was causing bereaved families, he replied: ‘F*** ’um.’

He has also singled out Madeleine McCann. His vile contribution, using his Nimrod alias, was left on a website specifically set up to mock the missing youngster and her parents, called ‘I Found Maddy . . . She Was Under The Bed All Along’.

And guess whose posting is directly above Burton’s odious comment? The aformentioned ‘Percy’, accompanied by a picture of Kirsty Chapman.

The term ‘troll’ is thought to derive from a fishing technique of slowly dragging a baited hook from a moving boat. Internet ‘trolls’ post inflammatory remarks (the metaphorical ‘bait’) to trigger a response from those they have abused (the metaphorical ‘fish’).
Trolls say they do it for the ‘LULZ’, or laughs, a computer variation of LOL, meaning Laugh Out Loud.
In other words, their sociopathic behaviour is as much about manipulation and control as causing offence and inducing despair.
Of course, ‘trolls’ go to extraordinary lengths to protect their own personal lives and privacy. Anonymity is their most potent weapon.
It is an offence under Section 127 of the Communications Act 2003, punishable by up to six months in prison, to send an ‘electronic message’ that is ‘grossly offensive’ or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character’.
Last year, though 3,105 people were prosecuted, the statistics cover all forms of electronic communication, including phone calls. In reality, there have been only a handful of convictions for internet trolling.
Yet the list of those who have been subjected to sickening abuse at the hands of ‘trolls’ grows longer every week. According to the mores of this dark sub-culture, anyone is ‘fair game’.
The BBC called in the police over racist internet attacks on Ruth Brown, a contestant in its talent show The Voice, and former Blue Peter presenter Richard Bacon recently told how he and his family were subjected to a barrage of lewd and sinister comments from an online persecutor.


The scale of the problem, and the difficulty in identifying perpetrators, means ‘trolling’ is all but impossible to combat. Nevertheless, the small number of successful prosecutions do provide a revealing insight into individuals who usually remain hidden from public exposure.
Few could have guessed that Frank Zimmerman, from Barnwood, Gloucestershire, was a culprit.
Neighbours say he is well-educated and speaks with a ‘posh’ accent. In a previous life, he was, apparently, a children’s author.
Now aged 60, with long, white hair and a straggly beard, he was regarded as a harmless, reclusive eccentric. The worst that could be said of him was that, over the years, he had allowed the once pristine garden of his semi to become overgrown.
Yet a few weeks ago, he sent a chilling email to Tory MP Louise Mensch.
‘You now have a Sophie’s Choice,’ he wrote. ‘Which kid is to go? Who will you choose?’ The question was a reference to the 1982 film Sophie’s Choice, in which a mother, played by Meryl Streep, is forced to decide which of her two children will be sent to the gas chambers.
Mrs Mensch was also told her that her computer had been hacked and that images of her family would be posted online.
The email, which contained foul-mouthed insults, left her feeling ‘extremely scared’, she said. It was traced to Zimmerman’s computer through its IP address — a unique code assigned to every terminal.
Zimmerman was convicted in his absence last month after he failed to turn up in court. He was warned he could face possible imprisonment when he appeared before a judge two weeks ago. Sentencing was adjourned for reports.


The devastating legacy of ‘trolling’ can still be found on Facebook memorial pages for John Paul Massey, a four-year-old who was mauled to death by a pit bull terrier at his grandmother’s home in Liverpool more than two years ago.
Today, visitors to the site are greeted by a warning from the youngster’s mother. ‘All of John Paul’s pages are being monitored by police intelligence,’ she wrote. ‘Be warned, your computers will be traced and you will be imprisoned just like Colm Coss.’
Unemployed Coss, 38, from Manchester, was jailed for 18 weeks in 2010 for leaving obscene comments on the site.
He also preyed on other sites, including one in memory of reality TV star Jade Goody.
He said he found it ‘amusing’ and enjoyed the reaction, particularly from ‘more educated people’.
Coss was arrested after sending photographs to neighbours describing himself as an ‘internet troll’. He lives in a ground-floor flat in Manchester’s Ardwick district.
Asked if he had any remorse for what he did, he replied: ‘This was two years ago. It’s done and dusted. It’s over. I don’t want to answer any questions whatsoever.’
Sean Duffy is another revered name among ‘trolls’. He persecuted the families of at least four dead youngsters. His stock in trade was defacing photographs of his victims with swastikas.
When 15-year-old Natasha MacBryde took her own life by jumping in front of a train on Valentine’s Day 2011, Duffy put her face on a YouTube clip of Thomas the Tank Engine and renamed it ‘Tasha the Tank Engine’.
He had previously doctored a picture of another victim, who died in a car crash, adding the caption: ‘Used car sale, one useless owner.’

Cautioned in 2009, Duffy, who claimed he had Asperger’s syndrome, was jailed for 18 weeks last year. He is banned from Facebook and other social networking sites and has to inform police if he buys a mobile phone with internet access. Duffy, whose father is a writer, used to live just a few miles from his parents’ home in Tilehurst, Reading, Berkshire, but has moved away.

As we know, though, not all ‘trolls’ are unemployed loners like Sean Duffy and Colm Coss, or, indeed, are male. Back in South Wales, we caught up with Darren Burton (aka ‘Nimrod Severn’) at the flat he shares with Kirsty Chapman and her children.
Miss Chapman was in, but did not come to the door. Burton admitted to being a ‘troll’ for the past two-and-a-half years, but said that he has stopped. His excuse for targeting memorial sites is one often trotted out by ‘trolls.’
‘I think grief should be a private thing — I don’t understand why people who have lost someone need to tell everyone about it,’ he said.
‘And I don’t get why people who never knew the person who died feel they want a slice of the action by jumping on a bandwagon. They’re just “grief tourists”. It’s not really me saying those things anyway, it’s another person I become when I go online as Nimrod Severn or whatever name I assume.
‘The online world is not the real world.’ And people, he says, can ‘log off’ if they don’t like what they find.
He flatly denied that Miss Chapman was ‘Percy’. She had ‘trolled’, he admitted, but had never targeted memorial sites.
Last year, however, they were interviewed by a man who has spent the past two years monitoring the activities of ‘trolls’ for a book. The source wanted to include Burton and Chapman and they agreed to speak to him.
The conversation on Skype (that is, a conference call via computer) took place in December and lasted more than an hour. The Mail has a copy of the tape.
On it, Burton refers to Miss Chapman as ‘Percy’. He speaks about his feelings for her and reveals how they met.


Interviewer: ‘She [referring to another female troll he spoke to] says Percy is really lovely an’ all.’
Burton: ‘Yeah, sure. I wouldn’t be with her if she wasn’t.’
Interviewer: ‘Did you find love through trolling?’
Burton: ‘Yeah.’
Miss Chapman also talks about ‘Percy’. At one point, she jokingly asks: ‘What did you think of Percy — did you find him handsome?


There were also a string of admissions from Burton about some of the people he claims they have targeted, including Ayana Colbert, a black teenager from Georgia in the U.S. who killed herself in April 2010.
Shortly after her death, a photograph of a black woman, resembling Ayana, hanging from the neck was posted on the internet and captioned: ‘Most Chimps Like to Swing About.’
The racist slur was attributed to Burton (aka ‘Nimrod’) at the time. When questioned about this by the interviewer, Burton says: ‘No, Kirsty’s done that as well.’
Confronted by the Mail, Burton did not deny such a conversation took place, but claimed he and Miss Chapman were ‘winding up’ the interviewer because they knew he had ‘outed trolls’ in the past.
Or, as Burton also put it: ‘He [the interviewer} has “f***** everyone else up”, so they “f***** his head up”.’
What was Burton’s justification for his trolling? Ah yes, if the bereaved don’t like what they read on the internet, then they can just ‘log off’. Try telling that to the loved ones of Megan Moore, the 16-year-old who fell under a train.
‘A work colleague told me that Megan’s page had been targeted,’ says Megan’s mother Lorraine, an assistant manager at a pre-school.
‘I wanted to look at the page to see what her friends were writing, but I knew that I would find it too traumatic, reading those horrible things.
‘Still, to this day, I have not looked and cannot bring myself to do so. These trolls have to be stopped before they do the same to another family.
‘I cannot understand what motivates them.
‘They cannot ever have lost someone close to them or they would know what we are going through.’


As a mother of three young children, Kirsty Chapman, if she is Percy, should know that better than anyone.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2146580/She-looks-utterly-respectable-But-mother-accused-wicked-troll-posts-vile-abuse-online-And-frame-The-self-confessed-troll-lives-.html#ixzz1vGfZz3DC

Last year, however, they were interviewed by a man who has spent the past two years monitoring the activities of ‘trolls’ for a book.

Who was it who was claiming there was no research being done into the sicko activities of these creatures?

Oh yes, it was Mike (I'll snap your neck) Hardy, aka Spudgun, the one who fantasises about sex with gorillas and threatens to sexually assault people.

It was a foregone conclusion that someone would research this. And I bet that a Mental Health Assessment is also being done.
We know for a fact that there are some supposedly respectable people posting on MM and Havern's, and Anthony Bennett is hardly a Council House deadbeat, even if he did buy his Council House. And he has savings way beyond that of normal people. But people like him do use their reportedly higher intellect to sway those who have no intellect at all.

‘Percy’ has also joked about abusing Madeleine McCann. The precise wording cannot be repeated in a family newspaper.

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He has also singled out Madeleine McCann. His vile contribution, using his Nimrod alias, was left on a website specifically set up to mock the missing youngster and her parents, called ‘I Found Maddy . . . She Was Under The Bed All Along’.

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I reckon it would be a safe bet that those two pieces of merde have posted on the hate sites; the excuse to post disgusting remarks in the guise of 'research' or 'concern' would be too good to miss.

And note that the female scumbag appears to be a hydra? Another very familiar pattern of anti-McCann behaviour.

bb1 wrote:‘Percy’ has also joked about abusing Madeleine McCann. The precise wording cannot be repeated in a family newspaper.

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He has also singled out Madeleine McCann. His vile contribution, using his Nimrod alias, was left on a website specifically set up to mock the missing youngster and her parents, called ‘I Found Maddy . . . She Was Under The Bed All Along’.

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I reckon it would be a safe bet that those two pieces of merde have posted on the hate sites; the excuse to post disgusting remarks in the guise of 'research' or 'concern' would be too good to miss.

And note that the female scumbag appears to be a hydra? Another very familiar pattern of anti-McCann behaviour.

Yes and this type is the first to squeal, when cornered.
What an evil bitch, and that thing has 3 kids. Another Karen Mathews and partner? 3 kids all by different fathers, most likely.
God forbid anything hapenning to those kids. You can't tell me any decent parent thinks like these two, without something else behind it

Look at this one:

http://thehoundingofthemccans.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/not-satisfied-with-displaying.html



That forker is one sick puppy.

No wonder LE and CEOPS keep an eye on them.

The fact he is surprised no one has abducted the twins; is the most worrying thing of all.
Is it the type of thing he would do?
ETA: And what point would be made; how easy it is to abduct a child?

I know nothing about that one, Tony, beyond he is depraved - some of the material he finds ever so funny would revolt anyone normal.

As in the image of the child's decaying corpse he so gleefully posted...

crazytony wrote:The fact he is surprised no one has abducted the twins; is the most worrying thing of all.
Is it the type of thing he would do?
ETA: And what point would be made; how easy it is to abduct a child?

He's like all the other trolls, Tony.

He is hoping someone will do it, cos he's another gutless wonder. And seeing how stupid they are, and how they love scoring points, one of them is daft enough, to try.

I have forwarded to SY and others it may be of help to.

But are we actually getting anywhere here? They might all be gutless wonders, but they could be winding up real Psychopaths. Who is doing anything about this?
If anything ever happens to The McCann Twins then the sky will fall. And I will die of sorrow because no one paid enough attention to what these monstrous people do.

We all joke about what they do and say, But it never was half funny.

bb1 wrote:Last year, however, they were interviewed by a man who has spent the past two years monitoring the activities of ‘trolls’ for a book.

Who was it who was claiming there was no research being done into the sicko activities of these creatures?

Oh yes, it was Mike (I'll snap your neck) Hardy, aka Spudgun, the one who fantasises about sex with gorillas and threatens to sexually assault people.

Mike Hardy (@spudgun01) was lashing out wildly because his own vile, obscene trolling activity had been exposed. He is a moron who thought that pretending to telephone every "authority" in the Midlands would find me or even worry me when the truth is I have never posted anything illegal or obscene unlike him and his perverted online friends. What a total prat he turns out to have been. I wonder if he will be so outspoken when it is his turn to be publicly outed in the national media?

Sabot wrote:
But are we actually getting anywhere here? They might all be gutless wonders, but they could be winding up real Psychopaths. Who is doing anything about this?
If anything ever happens to The McCann Twins then the sky will fall. And I will die of sorrow because no one paid enough attention to what these monstrous people do.

We all joke about what they do and say, But it never was half funny.

Don't you worry about it, Sabot. Seriously girl, don't worry at all.

Sabot wrote:
But are we actually getting anywhere here? They might all be gutless wonders, but they could be winding up real Psychopaths. Who is doing anything about this?
If anything ever happens to The McCann Twins then the sky will fall. And I will die of sorrow because no one paid enough attention to what these monstrous people do.

We all joke about what they do and say, But it never was half funny.

You are absolutely right. Both law enforcement and serious media outlets have ignored this phenomenon whereby the dregs of society have used the Internet for their perverted amusement. Thankfully that is changing and by using laws other than libel they are beginning to catch up with the criminal actions of these vile perverts. Decent society does not see perverted obscenity as being an essential aspect of "freedom of speech" and the actions of these sub humans who take delight in their cowardly online activities are slowly being exposed.

One of the reasons which has held back the media, in particular, from exposing these creatures is that there is a serious risk that when exposed they will become the target of abuse themselves (possibly physical) from other characters who live in their neighbourhoods and who have warped vigilante ideas about justice. It would appear that the seriousness of their actions now is causing editors to err on the side of exposure rather than caution. Interesting times beckon.

It is also going to be interesting to see what happens now FB has floated. Investors might take continual bad publicity a bit more seriously than a bunch of overgrown SK8RS.

And its launch on the stock market didn't turn out to be the runaway success it had been hyped as.

I wonder if the class action in the US had anything to do with that?

http://news.sky.com/home/business/article/16230763

Facebook Sued Over Breach Of Privacy Claims

Quote:

Lawyers representing some of the plaintiffs say that even if Facebook’s alleged actions only constitute a single violation of the Act, the cumulative claims of US Facebook users could top $15bn (£9.5bn)

It will be irony indeed if commercial pressures force FB to clean its act up. Something has to - Zuckerberg has shown, over and over again, that he is grossly irresponsible.

crazytony wrote:

Sabot wrote:
But are we actually getting anywhere here? They might all be gutless wonders, but they could be winding up real Psychopaths. Who is doing anything about this?
If anything ever happens to The McCann Twins then the sky will fall. And I will die of sorrow because no one paid enough attention to what these monstrous people do.

We all joke about what they do and say, But it never was half funny.

Don't you worry about it, Sabot. Seriously girl, don't worry at all.

But I do worry, Tony. And there is nothing half daft about me. I know what people can do by apparently thoughtless gossip. And I know of how much damage they can do. Nothing very serious in the days before The Internet, other than the odd destroyed life. But this has gotten really serious.
I am a tough old cookie, but they scare me witless.

Notice the hate sites aren't discussing this - in public, at least? Maybe it's a bit too close to home?

greenink211 wrote:

Sabot wrote:
But are we actually getting anywhere here? They might all be gutless wonders, but they could be winding up real Psychopaths. Who is doing anything about this?
If anything ever happens to The McCann Twins then the sky will fall. And I will die of sorrow because no one paid enough attention to what these monstrous people do.

We all joke about what they do and say, But it never was half funny.

You are absolutely right. Both law enforcement and serious media outlets have ignored this phenomenon whereby the dregs of society have used the Internet for their perverted amusement. Thankfully that is changing and by using laws other than libel they are beginning to catch up with the criminal actions of these vile perverts. Decent society does not see perverted obscenity as being an essential aspect of "freedom of speech" and the actions of these sub humans who take delight in their cowardly online activities are slowly being exposed.

One of the reasons which has held back the media, in particular, from exposing these creatures is that there is a serious risk that when exposed they will become the target of abuse themselves (possibly physical) from other characters who live in their neighbourhoods and who have warped vigilante ideas about justice. It would appear that the seriousness of their actions now is causing editors to err on the side of exposure rather than caution. Interesting times beckon.

But won't that always be the way? Hasn't it always been the way? This has been going on for Centuries. Disaffected people have been slagging off whoever they thought were better off than they were, and I don't think that most of us cared too much. We mostly just felt sorry for them and then got on with our own lives.

But the point on this occasion is that a perverted PJ Policeman who is known to have been complicit in the torture of a possible suspect has then gone on to accuse another family in the self same inexplicable fashion, and once again with out any credible evidence. He has even used the same non existent evidence.

I don't know if you have ever looked at the evidence that convicted Leonor Cipriano, or even the evidence of which convicted Michael Cook, but the whole thing is an obscenity. And this is where the problem lies.

Mike Spudgun ‏@spudgun01
You can't DEBATE with a PRO #McCann Troll. They are programmed to simply ARGUE and villify, not reason, articulate or deliberate

Oh, the irony....

**WARNING - FOUL LANGUAGE AND THREATS OF VIOLENCE**

They destroy themselves the minute they put words to post. They are so into the pits of despair that they have no chance of ever having a happy life. Sad to say that these people are not worth a passing thought. Unless they offend me. And offending me was never a good idea.

bb1 wrote:Look at this one:

http://thehoundingofthemccans.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/not-satisfied-with-displaying.html



That forker is one sick puppy.

No wonder LE and CEOPS keep an eye on them.

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These are his twitter details
Chris Stedman

@ChrisRStedman

Single, literate, love writing, reading, intelligent humour. Four of my books (incl. SciFi) now available at www.BlotterPress.com. See also BookListerPro.com

Herefordshire, England.

Is that the same one?

bb1 wrote:Is that the same one?

Just added his twitter details to my post at the bottom, Bonny.

Well, that explains a great deal - he's barking mad.

bb1 wrote:

Well, that explains a great deal - he's barking mad.

bb1 wrote:

Well, that explains a great deal - he's barking mad.

It does Bonny, his joke book is a laugh a year, by the looks of things.

They aren't even his jokes either, half of them I fell out my pram laughing at, over 60 years ago