Internet Troll (Article One)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/sep/13/internet-troll-jailed-mocking-teenagers?fb=native&CMP=FBCNETTXT9038

Summary.
This article is from the Guardian newspaper 13/06/2011. It is about a 25 year old internet troll, Sean Duffy who was jailed for posting videos and messages taunting dead teenagers and their grieving families who were left behind.

One such 15 year old girl had died instantly when hit by a passenger train near her home, her brother of 17 made her a Facebook tribute page and the troller posted comments such as ''i fell asleep on the track lolz''. Five days after the young girls death he made a YouTube video called 'Tasha the Tankengine'. I can only imagine how horrible these malicious online communications were to her family, especially since the troller was a complete stranger to the victim.

On appearing against magistrates in court, they examined other cases of online trolling concerning Duffy. It was found that he had been involved in numerous cases of disturbing online behaviour involving young, recently deceased teenagers. Duffy was given a custodial sentence and a five year antisocial behaviour order prohibiting him from social networking sites such as Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and others.
The court said that 'the case served as an illustration of the harm and damage that malicious use of social networking sites could do.'

Duffy's lawyer told the court that he has Asperger's syndrome, he lived a ''miserable life'' and ultimately that his condition made him unaware of the effect he was having on the family and friends of the victims.