Brenda Leyland found dead in a hotel room.

[Mr Gray]

Brunty has gone to ground.  He hasn't tweeted since Brenda's death was discovered. Maybe they will send him out to report from Embola infected Africa for his sins?   

Brunt has had to stop tweeting due to the rent a mob trolls who have attacked his account

[Anna]

Brenda on her last day on twitter said something to the effect, of men in suits wanted her to stop.
  Do you think that she had been warned/advised to stop posting?

Then the strange post same day something along the lines of ..Come the man, come the hour, some have really sealed their fate.
 Strange.

[faithlilly]

Brenda on her last day on twitter said something to the effect, of men in suits wanted her to stop.
  Do you think that she had been warned/advised to stop posting?

Then the strange post same day something along the lines of ..Come the man, come the hour, some have really sealed their fate.
 Strange.

Could you post the tweets Anna because I believe it was a gentleman blogger who wrote that and not Brenda.

[insider]

  Brenda actually believed the McCanns and / or their family were reading her tweets.  She wrote her horrible messages hoping they would be read by the McCanns.  She intended to cause them distress.  She also targeted another twitter user believing her to be one of the witnesses in the case and, together with her (Sweepyface's  posse of fellow abusers), threatened and abused and bullied this other twitter user.  It's all on Greptweet for all to see.  So please don't try and make out she was some sort of angel.

It is already known by SY that a witness in the disappearance of Madeleine has been using social media for some time.  Can't say much more than that at the moment.

[Brietta]

It is already known by SY that a witness in the disappearance of Madeleine has been using social media for some time.  Can't say much more than that at the moment.

You've lost me just a little bit there.

Is it illegal for witnesses in Madeleine's case to use social media?

[slartibartfast]

You've lost me just a little bit there.

Is it illegal for witnesses in Madeleine's case to use social media?

Yes, if they are discussing the case. Destroys their credibility as their recollections may be modified. Same as if a group of witnesses got together to compare stories.

[John]

Brenda on her last day on twitter said something to the effect, of men in suits wanted her to stop.
  Do you think that she had been warned/advised to stop posting?

Then the strange post same day something along the lines of ..Come the man, come the hour, some have really sealed their fate.
 Strange.

The actual tweets...


516663733024985088|Mon Sep 29 19:00:07 +0000 2014|#mccann " Men in suits want me to stop " but not until I have told every body about their presence
516663117808676864|Mon Sep 29 18:57:41 +0000 2014|@1matthewwright1  #mccann  In Die hard 4, when they baddies want to shut up computer geek, they don't let him sign off with flourish
516661916199309312|Mon Sep 29 18:52:54 +0000 2014|@1matthewwright1  #mccann  Good point Bat man ! why would " men in suits " allow you to write about " men in suits  " 1 last time


Are you sure she didn't borrow that quote from Richard Philips who was forced to closed down his blog which was highly critical of the new book by Summers and Swan?

By the way, the blog is back.

www.my-mccann-thoughts.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/all-is-clear-now-so-im-back.html

[John]

Exposed McCann troll was mired in loneliness

Illawarra Mercury
By  ELIZABETH GRICE
Oct. 18, 2014

Brenda Leyland was found dead after being outed as an obsessive Twitter abuser of Kate and Gerry McCann, but her case confounds stereotypes.

A likeable, churchgoing woman of no obviously strong views, she seemed more interested in gardening, photography and quizzes than any solitary obsession with tweeting. She also had a passionate, innocuous leading role in the village's annual scarecrow competition.

Yet, hiding behind the alias @sweepyface, she insinuated that the McCanns were implicated in their three-year-old daughter's disappearance during a family holiday in Portugal in 2007 - a theme that had obsessed her for four years. According to the website BuzzFeed, she was sometimes posting more than 50 tweets a day, even on Christmas Eve, from 7am until midnight.

Mrs Leyland tweeted triumphantly at the height of her persecution: "You can move to France, anywhere, but social media is everywhere! Our memories are long, Maddie deserves it."

Her message seemed mild compared with some of the foul-mouthed stuff that has continued to rain down on the McCanns - but there was menace in it, too. Questioned by Sky News reporter Martin Brunt, she said she was "entitled" to tweet as she did - though her justification, without the protective cloak of anonymity, sounded far from confident.

Brunt, one of the most respected television reporters in the business, was invited into Mrs Leyland's house and spent time talking to her about her concerns over the McCann case off-camera. Inevitably, he has himself now become the victim of trolling, with a Facebook page set up under the title "Sack Martin Brunt".

What he could not have known when he approached her was the personal tragedy behind Mrs Leyland's confessed obsession. She was estranged from her eldest son, Daniel, and never spoke of him. Saturday, the day when her body was found in Leicester's Marriott hotel, was Daniel's 37th birthday.

A neighbour said: "Deep down it must have hurt that he cut his mum out of his life. Whether that made her anti the McCanns, who seemed to have a very loving, supportive and happy family, we will never know. We were friends but grew apart, she was a one-way ticket. She could be quite nasty and controlling.

"When Madeleine first went missing she used to go over to her home village all the time. She used to go to the local pub and the shops telling everyone what she thought about the family. It seemed very odd behaviour."

Mrs Leyland's younger son, Ben, 30, lives in Los Angeles where he works for a law firm. He posted a brief emotional tribute on Facebook saying: "I love you mum and I will miss you forever. I am love and I am light, thanks to you."

In the absence of the one person who seemed to value her, such village friendships as she had sound poor substitutes for meaningful family life. Mrs Leyland's mother died in 2004 and she had distant relations in Australia, but few in Britain, other than her estranged son. A friend described her as "lonely beyond belief".

A neighbour in Burton Overy whose son is a friend of Mrs Leyland's son, Ben, said: "I just can't understand why she would have posted those things. No-one in this village can. But then, for her to take her life is even more inexplicable. She just packed her bags and took off."

Another villager suggested the threat of being unmasked and prosecuted was overwhelming.

"She was a proud, very bright articulate and upstanding lady and the thought of a prison sentence hanging over her would have devastated her. Sadly, she couldn't live with herself."

London Daily Telegraph


www.illawarramercury.com.au/story/2629697/exposed-mccann-troll-was-mired-in-loneliness/?cs=2388