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. Another poster read: 'I caught the train to heaven LOL.' Duffy's final target was Jordan Cooper, 14, from Washington, Newcastle Upon Tyne - who was stabbed to death by his uncle on February 28 this year. Duffy created a group called 'Jordan Cooper in pieces' with a profile picture of a knife with blood dripping from it. A further YouTube video was also made which contained pictures of Jordan with his eyes crossed out and slashes across his face. Again, another teenager was wrongly accused of creating the page. Duffy's lawyer Lance Whiteford said he could offer no mitigation but that Asperger's and alcohol abuse went some way to explaining why he committed the offences. Duffy was diagnosed from a young age with Asperger's and had received specialist education because of his condition. But it had led to years of bullying and isolation, including moving out of his parents' home, Mr Whiteford told the court. He added: 'In terms of mitigation there is none. I cannot imagine the trauma and anxiety caused to the families by these horrible, despicable offences. 'The condition leaves the absence of theory of the mind, quintessentially the ability that makes us human. 'He just wasn't aware how horrible the effect was going to be on those who looked at what he had done. 'Drinking alone he leads a very miserable existence, committing offences like this has spread the misery a thousand fold.' He described Duffy, previously cautioned for a similar offence in 2009, as living an isolated life and said he had been the subject of bullying in education and work. Duffy, who is currently on incapacity benefit, was also given a five-year Asbo and is prohibited from creating or accessing social network sites including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Bebo and Myspace. Duffy must also inform police of any phone he purchases with internet access. Speaking outside court, Mark Drew called for the operators of social networking sites to take more responsibiilty for their content. He said: 'The web is a wonderful thing if used right but as you can see in this case it was used wrongly. 'We were lucky, if that is the right word, he was here in the UK. He could have been in the States and how hard would it have been to track him down then? 'Facebook is very hard to get hold of in this situation. You can report these things but there's no one to actually speak to. 'It comes up, it's removed and then it reappears. 'These days children live on Facebook, it's their lives and they're just so vulnerable.'
My girlfriend's cousin is autistic and comes out with some really offensive stuff which is brushed under the carpet and dismissed with "och shes just autistic she cant help it", well this should well be a warning to them that in the eyes of the law people with autism are accountable for their actions
If the **** could superimpose pictures he knows a lot more than me or other numb nuts on here,**** the ****,lock him up.
Thats not what aspergers is. Aspergers is the lack of awareness of acceptable social interaction and conduct. You will find that alot of them are incredibly smart people (like the fella who the FBI have been after after he hacked the CIA site, he had aspergers) just no idea of what forms acceptable social conduct
Maybe I'm old fashoined Jacky,I admit I know **** all about it but I still think any **** that is evil enough to do that is ****ing twisted.
You may think they don't patrol this site but they do..........I can assure you all that they will take action if they so desire. Usually a site like this is not so general as say Facebook or the like so is not considered to be so much in the public eye.....but it could happen so be warned...........
When i die any of you sick cants can feel free to wade in with abuse............................................
I understand why you would think that IG, but it's not that simple unfortunately. Twisted he may be, but he won't see it that way. He probably won't even understand what all the fuss is about.
