What a **** piece of justice (OT)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-taunted-teenager-deaths-jailed-18-WEEKS.html

A twisted internet 'troll' who posted vile videos and messages mocking the deaths of teenagers - including a girl who threw herself under a train - was jailed today for 18 weeks.

Sean Duffy, 25, targeted Facebook tribute pages and even posted videos on YouTube taunting the dead and their families.

He hijacked emotional tributes on the internet and, hiding behind his computer screen, posted vile messages that caused the dead teenager's families yet more pain.

Among the jobless man's victims was bullied Natasha MacBryde, 15, who died instantly when she was hit by a passenger train near her home in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, on February 13.

The day after her death the malicious 'troll' posted comments including 'I fell asleep on the track lolz' on the Facebook tribute page created by her brother James, 17.

Five days after Natasha's death Duffy, who the court heard has Asperger's Syndrome, created a YouTube video called 'Tasha the Tank Engine' featuring her face etched onto the front of the famous train.

He also created a Facebook page entitled RIP Lauren Drew after the 14-year-old died from an epilepsy attack at her home in Gloucester in January.

Duffy posted images called 'Lauren's epifit' and 'Lauren's rotting body' and created a YouTube video with a picture of a coffin saying 'Happy Mothers Day'.

He signed off the video with the sickening message: 'I don't know why you're all crying down there, it's soaking here in hell.'

Duffy - who did not know any of his victims - pleaded guilty to two counts of sending malicious communications, relating to Natasha, at an earlier hearing.

Yesterday he asked for three other cases of Facebook trolling to be taken into consideration at Reading Magistrates' Court in Berkshire.

Chair of the Bench Paul Warren sentenced him to 18 weeks for each of the offences to run concurrently - the maximum possible sentence.

He said: 'You have caused untold distress to already grieving friends and family. The offences are so serious only a custodial sentence could be justified.

'The case serves to illustrate the malicious use and harm and damage of social networking.'

The court heard that Duffy lived a 'miserable existence' drinking alcohol alone at his home in Reading.

Joanne Belsey, prosecuting, read out statements from family members of the victims - some of who sat in court - who were horrified at the abuse they received.

Duffy first created a mock account for 16-year-old Hayley Bates, from Staffordshire, who died in a car crash in September 2010.

Duffy defaced pictures set up on her profile with big crosses over her eyes and stitches over her forehead.

One caption underneath a picture of flowers at the crash site read: 'Used car for sale, one useless owner.'

Her distraught sister messaged Duffy after discovering the account but received no response.

Ten minutes later he posted on the account's wall: 'My sis added me, it must be boring on earth not having someone to have incest with. Love you xx'.'

He also cruelly targeted the mother of Lauren Drew on Mother's Day following the 14-year-old's death in January this year.

The court heard how a teenager was then falsely accused of creating the profile and video and subsequently took a drug overdose as a result of the accusations.

Speaking outside court, Lauren's father Mark spoke of the devastation the abuse had caused the family as they struggled to come to terms with her death.

He said: 'We were already having a hard time. Lauren was my only daughter and I worshipped the ground she walked on and this person was hiding behind a computer.

'We're so angry, there's so many excuses but he's hurt us really badly.

'He caused devastation to us and other families, for so many people. It hurts but he sits behind a computer with no feeling

We got the best we can hope from it, we're here for all the families. It just hurt having a hard time of it already after Lauren died.'

Lauren's mother Carol added: 'We lost our daughter, it was really hard and then we had to deal with all this as well.

'We got out the maximum sentence but there was still no excuse for what he did.'

However Duffy's worst abuse was aimed at public schoolgirl Natasha MacBryde, who threw herself under a train hours after she was sent an abusive message by an anonymous bully on a social networking website called Formspring.

She had also been teased by members of an all-girl clique at her £10,000-a-year school in the weeks leading up to her death.

Duffy set up a fake tribute page on Facebook called 'Tasha the Tank Engine'.

On the official memorial page set up by her brother James he wrote: 'I fell asleep on the track lolz' and posted images of her with text sprawled across it saying 'spoilt dead c***'.

Shockingly, other internet trolls joined in the abuse. One, under the name Pro Fesser, created posters of Natasha under the banner 'Whore' on the tribute site.

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He only gets 18 weeks for this? Sick fat ****!

 

Good justice in my opinion. I bet he felt all safe and felt like it was a bit of fun behind a computer screen. Now he's gonna be locked up for over 4 months.

For someone who has no criminal past and no criminal involvement, even being locked up in prison for a single week would ****ing terrify them. Being sent down to serve for four months for 'trolling' will devastate and terrify the guy, and rightly so. Plus, this should help to really put the fear of ****e up anyone else who does things like this. It's a stark realisation that they aren't actually safe at all behind that monitor of theirs.

Mind you, I did just notice this too:

May play some part in why he acted like such a sick ****er. But still, no excuse.

 

good hope he rots in jail

 

Autistic people, without the correct upbringing, do struggle with the sense of right and wrong. So if he is autistic, 18 weeks is probably fair considering he had no previous record.

 

18 weeks for each case. 4 cases. Right?

 

What a disgusting scum bag that lowlife is. Should lock him up and throw the key away.

 

Sick twat!

You always get these people who sit behind a computer and think they're big and hard, surprised none of the family members who had to go through that belted him. If anyone said those things about a family member or friend of mine, i'd struggle to hold myself back.

Hope the little **** is terrified in prison!

 

Anybody can get a diagnosis from a doctor to soften the blow when it comes to sentencing, most of them opt for insanity or something. Autism can't be diagnosed through medical testing.

He'll end up getting out after 6 weeks, simply because our penal system is pathetic.

 

He may well do less time than his sentence, the fact is he's been "Outed" now, his life will never be the same, he has to face people and I've no doubt somebody out there will make his life miserable. As for him having no previous record, to me that just means he never got caught before.

 

Very sad story.

I cant imagine the grief the families went through.

But, you also have to think about the chap that did it. Why is that a man with Aspergers, has been left alone like he has? He should have had proper care, either from the state of his parents. Apprantely the mans father worked for the BBC, so he wont exactly be short of money will he?

I sort of feel sorry for this Duffy fella. He probably wont have understood the harm he was doing.

Its a very sad story for everyone involved.

 

Yeah that's what I thought it says...

So he will be in for a year by the looks of things, which is fair in my opinion.

 

He didn't understand the harm? So why did he do it? Did he think sending horrible, nasty, vile messages to the families was right?

He completely knew what he was doing, he just never thought he would get caught, like most of the idiots that do that stuff.

 

Concurrently means at the same time, not the same as consecutively.

 

Autism is a funny old thing which is difficult for us 'normal minded' people to comprehend.

He didn't necessarily think it was the 'right' thing to do. He may have just had no understanding that it would cause much grief or harm, if any at all. There's no link there in his brain which even makes him think of any outcome or effect whatsoever. If that link isn't there, it becomes much more difficult to make basic moral decisions.

For the record, he's still probably an awful **** of a person. However, the autism may have caused his feelings and thoughts to be essentially numbed right down to the point where he sees that it's nothing more than harmless fun in his mind.

 

Even so, I still read that as he has to serve them all without being released in between each sentence individual sentence. Otherwise that is disgraceful and insists that he is being let off for the other three.

 

Come on, the man has aspergers for crying out loud! Its very much possible, he wouldnt have known the harm that could be caused from this. He will have massive social difficulties etc

I'm not saying he definetley did not know what he was doing. Im just saying, its a very real possibility .

 

Well he's serving 4 lots of 18 week sentences, just over the course of the same 18 weeks. It seems a very short sentence to me, but the maximum the law will allow is 18 weeks so that's all he can get for his particular charge of sending malicious communications. Maybe it will make the right people look at it and think it's perhaps a bit lenient due to all the suffering he's caused.

 

My opinion also.

 

I also read in the paper yesterday that he's been banned from social networking for five years. Not quite as long as the lifetime ban he should get from computers mind.

 

I don't know alot about autism, but he went looking for an emotional reaction from the peoples families, he deliberately went to create facebook groups, post vile messages and make horrible videos. He lives a life which involves sitting behind a computer praying on vulnerable family members who've lost a loved one, whilst he's doing this he's getting drunk.

If anything he's taking his frustrations of his failed being out on those families. I bet he has internet buddies who he goes and brags to.

Like i say, i don't know alot about Asperger's Syndrome but he's a sick individual.