[Liam-]

Originally Posted by StupidHoe

She still took it too far.

If you do wrong then face up to your actions when caught out.

She was stating an opinion that many people share, on a social media website which the Mccann's are not even a member of, so her opinions were being sent out into the world, not directly at the Mccanns.. that's just free speech.

[Amy Jade]

Originally Posted by LiamPRW

She was stating an opinion that many people share, on a social media website which the Mccann's are not even a member of, so her opinions were being sent out into the world, not directly at the Mccanns.. that's just free speech.

Then people chastising her for those opinions is also just free speech.

She is perfectly entitled to her opinion and over 50 tweets a day is pretty OTT but she wrote them and clearly knew what she was doing so the backlash came at her own hands so to speak.

[Liam-]

Originally Posted by StupidHoe

Then people chastising her for those opinions is also just free speech.

She is perfectly entitled to her opinion and over 50 tweets a day is pretty OTT but she wrote them and clearly knew what she was doing so the backlash came at her own hands so to speak.

Yeah its free speech, but when it comes to people saying she should burn in hell and get brutally raped in every orifice, then it goes onto a different level.. The majority of the hate she got from it was when she was still alive and because of the article that was put out, which included her twitter handle, it was all personally directed at her, turning it into direct abuse, different from what she was doing herself.

[MTVN]

Originally Posted by Dezzy

Well this woman's no longer on Twitter so why aren't you giving her detractors, that aren't harassing anyone in any way shape or form and just simply have 'a difference of opinion', the same leeway? That's truly hypocritical.

This woman is a troll, the people making fun of her death are trolls. They are one and the same and that doesn't make anything she did justifiable just because you agreed with her point of view.

Agree. It should come as no surprise that one troll provokes these sort of responses from other trolls.

[Amy Jade]

Originally Posted by LiamPRW

Yeah its free speech, but when it comes to people saying she should burn in hell and get brutally raped in every orifice, then it goes onto a different level.. The majority of the hate she got from it was when she was still alive and because of the article that was put out, which included her twitter handle, it was all personally directed at her, turning it into direct abuse, different from what she was doing herself.

Yes I understand what you are saying but at the end of the day she decided to do what she did, the actions of the other trolls stem from her actions.

Telling her to get raped is awful obviously but had she not been as demented as she was in her hate of the McCanns and tweeted some pretty horrific things herself nobody would have gone for her in the manner they did.

You reap what you sow.

[Ammi]

..I don't think there is any doubt that what Brenda Leyland did was wrong and a deplorable thing to do to anyone and she would have probably been prosecuted for it if she was mentally well enough to be...but a woman is dead, a family is devastated..and so the Twitter hate goes on ...Martin Brunt may not have foreseen that she would commit suicide but it was only ever going to bring more hate and more trolling by a public 'outing' and never going to bring anything other than negative/it couldn't not...I think he really does hold some responsibility for this....