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Sky ‘saddened’ over death of alleged McCann troll

                                   
This article is about a women who threatened the McCann family over the social networking site, Twitter. Brenda Leyland, 63, was found in a hotel room in Leicester on Saturday, after being challenged outside her home by the broadcaster over claims that she used Twitter to post a series of comments attacking the McCanns, whose daughter disappeared in Portugal in 2007.

• Leyland was accused of being one of dozens of people to have attacked Kate and Gerry McCann via the internet.
• Leyland explained that she “had questions for the McCanns” but “hoped she hadn’t broken the law” in her online posts.
• Neighbours said they believed Leyland had fled the small village in rural Leicestershire, where she had lived for nearly 15 years.
• A Leicestershire police spokeswoman said: “Police were called at 1.42pm on Saturday 4 October to reports of a body of a woman in a hotel room in Smith Way, Grove Park.
•  Gerry McCann, told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that he had not read the alleged abusive messages, and did not intend to. But he added: “Clearly something needs to be done about the abuse on the internet. I think we probably need more people charged.”

I think this article is interesting as it shows the negatives of new and digital media and how social networking sites are abused. This is an example of how a lady took to twitter, one of the largest social media sites, in order to attack the McCann family after their terrible encounter of their daughter who went missing 7 years ago.