Harassment is harassment... it makes no difference if it's in person, on the phone or online.

But it's not relevant to the discussion. The fact is, a troll pretended to be the ghost of a dead child. It's disturbing yes and in no way do I agree with it but the fact is it should of been dealt with by twitter. Not at the cost of taxpayers by wasting police time.

clearly the police see it differently, its in the public interest to stop these people so other would be trolls think twice about abusing someone.

pretending to be a ghost to abuse someone makes no difference its still abuse.

Ok then

It is as disturbing if not more so to be abused by a stranger as opposed to someone you know for me. It's tormenting and menacing to have a faceless entity attacking you from a psychological perspective. It's an area that needs serious attention and I wouldn't think anyone affected or who can empathise with the victim here would suggest that any investigation is a waste of resources.

It was a waste of resources. Twitter has means to stop this sort of thing, THEY should of done something. Not the police.

block them

I find it absolutely sick that anyone let alone someone of over 60 years of age could stoop so low to tear this family to pieces emotionally again.

They must still be devastated by that horrific and in my view, unforgivable murder of little James.

Sick, the man is pathetic,in fact that is being way too generous to even call him a man.

It isn't as harassment is still an offence, they need to be stopped and punished, that way those who feel it is open season on sites dedicated to deceased children and such may think twice if their sick backsides get hauled to court?....

That's not the point I'm trying to make here.

There are ways to deal with harassment on twitter though. It's called blocking them.

That's not the point either harassment via twitter needs to be taken as serious as it would via any other medium.

By trolls pretending to be dead children? It's sick yeah but there's worse things happening in the world. Things that need the attention of police. This I'm afraid isn't one of them.

Lots of people pretend to be Elvis and he is dead, should they get arrested? :o

we have the best elvis impersonator in the word, lives locally to me, so the answer is no.

In your opinion, luckily the police do take this more seriously.

people have killed them selves thanks to internet trolls, so it is worth investigating.

What on earth has that got to do with this discussion?

I can kinda see both sides of this. On the one hand the kneejerk reaction is that this guy should be punished. What he did was undeniably sick and I really feel for that poor woman the amount of trolling she has had thrown at her over the years.

On the other hand I think the police are already overworked as it is, much more serious crimes go pretty much ignored and they just do not have the time to police the internet. Also its a bit unfair to just cherry pick which cases they actually take up from twitter, which seems to be what they do. Death threats are ignored unless its a big celeb...etc etc. All should be treat the same, regardless who the victim is :shrug:

I completely agree with you, I said earlier that I think it wouldn't have been made a big deal of if it wasn't such a famous case.

It is serious though to the victim isn't it? and I doubt it will be investigated in any depth until it becomes a serious issue.

Well I suppose, but I'm sure even the victim of something like this could see that..for example..an assault case was more serious and deserving of police time?

Its a shame its gotta be one or the other and our police force isnt really equipped to deal with all crime that they should due to cuts and stuff, but such is life :bored:

Are Venables and Thompson in or out of jail at the moment?

They are out Cherie:bawling:

No I don't see that, and it thankfully doesn't work like that.