What a sad story this is all round. I happened to catch the Sky News broadcast where Brenda Leyland or "sweepyface" (her Twitter name) was "doorstepped" and asked about her 4000-odd vicious tweets implicating the McCanns in the disappearance of their daughter. She was clearly shocked at having been caught out. Intriguingly, she sounded "normal" and "posh", lived in a nice house in a village. Days later she committed suicide, and I was pretty shocked when I heard that.
This is a good article about people who live in a "fresh air lacking, web-dependent, screen-chained world". It's warped world for many, for sure.
www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/the-case-of-brenda-leyland-and-the-mccanns-is-a-thoroughly-modern-tale-of-internet-lawlessness-9778262.html
The other thing about that Sky news insert that made me flinch on behalf of strangers, is that they had screenshots of a facebook page discussing the McCann's and "ordinary" people who had posted on there had their photographs displayed on the screen and their names and comments read out. Ouch!
Acute anxiety after death of my husband
Our Welfare State. Is it broken?