The victim Caroline Perez
[Courtesy Sky News]
Cyberbullying is not a myth and when it comes to twitter,trolling is like that favourite cup of coffee. People gets away with slaying others but you’ll have to think again. A pair who pulled the stunt weren’t as lucky and will have to take sometimes from the keyboards for some weeks and face the jail walls.
Isabella Sorley, 23, has been jailed for 12 weeks. She used Twitter to tell Ms Criado-Perez to “f*** off and die you worthless piece of crap”, “go kill yourself” and “rape is the last of your worries”.
John Nimmo, 25, was jailed for eight weeks. He told Ms Criado-Perez to “shut up bitch” and “Ya not that gd looking to rape u be fine” followed by “I will find you (smiley face)” and then the message “rape her nice ass”, Westminster Magistrates’ Court heard.
Sentencing Sorley to 12 weeks in prison and Nimmo to eight weeks, Judge Howard Riddle said it was “hard to imagine more extreme threats”.
The pair bombarded Ms Criado-Perez with the abusive messages last year after she led a successful campaign using social media for a female figure to appear on a Bank of England note.
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