Troll charged over 'offensive' FB comments about April Jones, Madeleine McCann

Man, 20, charged after 'posting offensive comments on Facebook about April Jones and likening her to Madeleine McCann'

Matthew Wood, from Chorley, Lancashire, to appear at magistrates' court
Arrested and charged with sending 'grossly offensive message or matter'
Comments he allegedly made were posted online on his Facebook account




By MARK DUELL
PUBLISHED: 18:28, 7 October 2012 | UPDATED: 18:28, 7 October 2012
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A man was yesterday charged with posting offensive comments on Facebook about April Jones.
Matthew Wood, 20, from Chorley, Lancashire, will appear at the town's magistrates' court tomorrow morning over comments posted about the missing five-year-old girl from Machynlleth, Wales.
He was arrested and charged under Section 127 of the Communications Act 2003 with sending a message or other matter that is grossly offensive on a public electronic communications network.

The charge comes after comments he allegedly made were posted online on his Facebook account.
The posting allegedly relates to Madeleine McCann - the British girl aged three who vanished in 2007 from the Algarve, Portugal - and was made last Thursday, reported the Lancashire Evening Post.


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Can I say TICK TOCK?

Not surprisingly, the haters think he's done nothing wrong:

Re: Man, 20, charged after 'posting offensive comments on Facebook about April Jones and likening her to Madeleine McCann'
Not Born Yesterday Today

This seems a little heavy-handed to me - the best course of action is to ignore trolls and hope they will improve with age; they always seem to be around 20 years old!

I must admit that I wonder what he said about Madeleine's case - did he suggest that someone known to both girls was responsible?

'Around 20 years old'? Hardly! He/she/it makes equally offensive remarks, and ain't no spring chicken.

How old are the keyboard-dribblers like yoyo and pretendypete?

Here's hoping this one is the first of many - and if they want to see trolls, all they have to do is look in a mirror.

Sadly, a lot of them are Grandmothers.

They might ALL like to read this, from Australia:

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/states-to-tackle-social-media-laws-after-alarm-over-fair-trial-for-accused-20121005-274py.html?skin=text-only

States to tackle social media laws after alarm over fair trial for accused

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WHEN - not if - there is an international clampdown on the internet, it is going to be entirely the fault of these idiots who have played right into the hands of governments.

The hounders are STILL 'speculating' about Bridger, despite very clear instructions to EVERYONE from the CPS.

And we can all see plenty of 'offensive garbage' from the McCann-haters.

There will be no point in crying about their Yuman Rites once a clampdown is under way because of THEIR behaviour; they have played into the hands of the authorities with their neverending vile behaviour.

Truthsayer ‏@OrtonChirwa
Has anyone offered to torture the whereabouts of #Maddie from Kate and Gerry #McCann yet, only I'm free from saturday?


A perfect example of why the authorities are now stepping in and clamping down.

And Spudgun is advocating Police Brutality, posted on Havern's. But he isn't the first. Some people in Portugal mourn the loss.
What can one say about people like this? Tortured people will say anything. This is really sickening.

Well, what else can you expect from an oaf who fantasises about bestiality, and threatens to snap people's neck whilst committing homosexual rape?

I am actually surprised Bennett is so chummy with him, with him being so disapproving of such practises.

Man Admits Offensive April Facebook Posts
2:13pm UK,
Monday 08 October 2012

A man has admitted making grossly offensive comments on his Facebook page about missing youngster April Jones.

Matthew Woods, 19, from Chorley, Lancashire, made a number of derogatory posts about April and missing Madeline McCann after getting the idea from Sickipedia - a website that "trades in sick jokes".

He also wrote comments of a sexually explicit nature about the five-year-old who went missing last week from near her home in Machynlleth, mid Wales.

Chorley Magistrates' Court heard members of the public were so upset about his postings that they reported them to the police.

A "vigilante mob" of around 50 people later descended upon his home address in Eaves Lane and the defendant was arrested on Saturday night at a separate address for his own safety.

Martina Jay, prosecuting, said: "When interviewed by police he fully admitted he posted messages about the two missing children.

"He started this idea when he was at a friend's house when drinking, saw a joke on Sickipedia and changed it slightly.

"He said he did it in a bid to make people think his account had been hacked. He said it got out of hand and he was drunk while doing it."

He conceded to police that his Facebook account - available to a large number of people - had not been hacked and that he was responsible for all the postings made on October 3 and 4.

Unemployed Woods entered a guilty plea to sending by means of a public electronic communications network a message or other matter that is grossly offensive.

After meeting his client for the first time, defending solicitor David Edwards told the bench: "What struck me immediately is that the enormity of what he has done has finally sunk in.

"He did seem guinenely remorseful and regretful for what he had done."

The solicitor said Woods explained what had started as a joke had gone wrong.

"His future is uncertain. He does not know whether he can go back to his home address. He fully accepts he was the author of his own misfortune," Mr Edwards added.

He asked for a community service order to be considered but the bench was told that custody could be imposed for anyone who is convicted of using extreme language that causes substantial distress or fear to another.

The bench asked for a pre-sentence report from a probation officer and said it would keep all options open ahead of sentencing, which is set to take place later.

http://news.sky.com/story/994920/man-admits-offensive-april-facebook-posts

He said he did it in a bid to make people think his account had been hacked.

How many times have we heard that excuse?

I can think of a few of them who could do with a spell in Prison, and most of them aren't kids, so no possible excuse.

arrest him, punish him hard.

He's been punished all right, Pedro, he's been jailed for three months:

http://www.itv.com/news/granada/2012-10-08/chorley-man-admits-making-offensive-comments-about-april-jones-on-facebook/

Wow. Heeeavy.

Time someone did something about that lot on Havern's and MM. And Twitter. Obviously the thing to do is to report them to The Police. Unless they live in Spain, or Holland, or Canada. In which case report them to The Police in the country where they live.
This possibility might even shut them up.

PS. It shouldn't be too difficult to find contact details for the various Police Forces.

PPS. This is not a call to arms to make complaints unnecessarily. The Police have enough to do without that. But we all know what is seriously offensive.

PPPS. And about bloody time too.

IMO, Twitter is the worst, though the prurient 'speculation' certain self-appointed Researchers enjoy so much is a pretty close second - but I am sure the police are already aware of them, as they have gone out of their way to attract attention.

But - why is anyone surprised? How often now have we said, The authorities are watching, they are going to clamp down?

And these idiots keep giving them perfect grounds to do so.

Think anyone is going to thank them for their 'theories' when, because of them, no-one can freely discuss politics?

Just look at the way they are all still 'speculating' about the accused in the April Jones case - DESPITE HAVING BEEN TOLD NOT TO BY THE CPS BECAUSE IT COULD PREJUDICE A TRIAL.

Seriously, what is wrong with them?

Yep.

Johnny Watergate ‏@JohnnyWatergate
Screenshots have been taken of the grossly offensive messages posted by anti #McCann on twitter. #12weeks #s127

Good. They will have no-one to blame but themselves when their Free Speach goes down the gurgler.

Ultimately it is only their Free Speach that will suffer. The rest of us don't need it.
They will be banned from The Internet. They will be banned from expressing any opinions at all.
Believe me, the likes of us won't suffer. They will just be picked off one by one.

exactly they got awayy with wishing me dead calling me chucky mispell saying i slid down of my mums legs out of the ugly tree etc and alot more until my twin brother saw their behaviour on twitter and googled them so now my whole family is aware of their vileness and my family support me a 100% they even suggested legal action

Justiceforallkids
Platinum Poster


See. Nothing to do with them. They never said anything vile.

I personally have never wished CarlyMichelle dead, and nor has anyone else that I know. She is far too good for a laugh to want her gone.
Not sure about The Ugly Tree, although that definitely wasn't me, probably because I didn't think of it.

Her Twin Brother is the UnderCover Cop. Or he was until she mouthed off. So that was his UnderCover Career down the pan.

PS. Her Dad thinks The McCanns are Innocent.

But at least we know who she is. And she knows who I am.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/oct/08/april-jones-teenager-jailed-facebook

April Jones murder: teenager jailed over offensive Facebook posts
Matthew Woods, 19, jailed for three months over 'abhorrent' comments about April Jones and Madeleine McCann

Quote:

The chairman of the bench, Bill Hudson, said Woods's comments were so serious and "abhorrent" that he deserved the longest sentence they could pass, less a third, to give credit for his early guilty plea.

Hudson said: "We have listened to the evidence in what can only be described as a disgusting and despicable crime and the bench finds was completely abhorrent. The words and references used to the current case in Wales and that of the missing girl in Portugal are nothing less than shocking, so much so that no right thinking person in society should have communicated to them such fear and distress."

He added that families involved in such cases should not have to be subjected to this type of misuse of social media.

Any chance of the McCann-haters finally getting the message?

Just ignore her, Sabot, she's only wanting attention. She has clearly forgotten the old saying about people in glass houses, and the utterly vile things she has said and done.


ETA, she doesn't actually have a place in this thread, as she is the perpetrator, not the victim.

The McCanns have been grossly abused for five long and painful years. And they have frequently been left in fear of their lives, and the lives of their twins.
Five effing years is too, too long.
Bennett is still trying to manipulate The Law that he so despises, and expects the common people to pay for what he has done. For the stalking and harassment, and the abuse.
I don't care if he wants to be a martyr. Just lock him up someone.

bb1 wrote:Just ignore her, Sabot, she's only wanting attention. She has clearly forgotten the old saying about people in glass houses, and the utterly vile things she has said and done.


ETA, she doesn't actually have a place in this thread, as she is the perpetrator, not the victim.

Sorry. You are right. CarlyMichelle is a Perpetrator of Vile Comments.

He added that families involved in such cases should not have to be subjected to this type of misuse of social media.

I really, really hope reality is sinking in with them; the frequently-salacious 'speculation' they are so fond of is likely to be the next target.

And guess which supposed ex-policeman doesn't agree with the verdict and sentence?



Worried about something, is he?

ETA, very timely, Tony.

http://thehoundingofthemccans.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/little-by-little-bit-by-bit-law-will.html