Carole Malone (a bit of a "sceptics" hero, I believe for her criticism of the McCanns in the past) gives the trolls both barrels and some more in this article:http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/madeleine-mccann-internet-trolls-devoid-4379575#ixzz3FClNRzMi
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/madeleine-mccann-internet-trolls-devoid-4379575#ixzz3FClNRzMiMadeleine McCann internet trolls are devoid of humanity – much like the people who abducted her
Oct 04, 2014 19:57
OPINION BY CAROLEMALONE
Sunday Mirror columnist Carole Malone says that whatever your opinions about the McCanns, sending them vile abuse and death threats is cowardly and depraved
Over the years I’ve had a lot to say about Kate and Gerry McCann. Like many people, I was angry at what I believed to be their irresponsibility in leaving young children alone while they went out drinking.
I could never forgive the fact that while holidaying in Portugal they left two-year-old twins and three-year-old Madeleine alone in an unlocked apartment not just for one night, but for many nights – even after Madeleine had cried and asked them not to leave her because she was scared.
And despite the fact there was a 10-quid babysitting service at their resort which they could have used, but chose not to.
These were mistakes that changed the McCanns’ lives for ever because they cost them their beloved Madeleine.
They were also mistakes which have since cost them their peace of mind and possibly now, even their safety.
Their decision to leave those children alone has brought with it a retribution that will haunt them every day of their lives.
But as well as having to deal with that, they’re now having to deal with a bunch of foul-mouthed trolls whose threats have become so vile, so dangerous, that Scotland Yard has an 80-page dossier on them.
And the threats aren’t just to Kate and Gerry McCann. Unforgivably, some of them are directed at their nine-year-old twins.
How sick, how twisted, how depraved do you have to be to keep bombarding an already broken family with hateful death threats – threats designed to throw more poison into their already poisoned lives.
The people making these threats are cruel and devoid of humanity – much like the people who abducted Madeleine. But they’re also cowards, too scared to say to the McCanns’ faces what they say anonymously on Twitter.
One of these trolls, Brenda Leyland, is a church-going 60-something divorcee who lives in a pretty village in the Home Counties. She looks like a perfectly respectable woman. But of course she isn’t.
She’s a cowardly bully who hides behind her smart front door and spews her bile in secret because she doesn’t have the guts to do it in public.
This piece of work was sending up to 50 texts a day to the McCanns. But when Sky News cameras approached her she wasn’t quite so brave.
She looked like a frightened rabbit (typical). But as she was running away (also typical) she said she thought she was entitled to do what she’d done.
Really? She thinks she’s entitled to threaten, hound and bully the innocent? Is that because her own life is so lonely, so miserable, so poisoned that she wants others to suffer the same. Or is she just a twisted, fecked up bitch who gets her kicks from hurting people.
Well, newsflash for these sickos – you guys aren’t the worst thing that’s ever happened to Kate and Gerry McCann. The very worst thing that could ever happen to them already has. And they will for ever have to live with that. I truly hope all the people in that dossier are prosecuted and I hope Sky continue to confront and identify every one of them. We should all know what a black heart and a twisted mind looks like.
These idiots need to know they can no longer hide behind false names to peddle their bile.
Let’s see how brave and opinionated they are when their evil is made public alongside their names and their faces.
