McCann troll commits suicide

ja That is nothing like stating categorically that this person was categorically mentally unwell. I sometimes wonder why I bother to post anything on here.

And I also said somewhere that even psychologists have difficulty in distinguishing between a mental disorder and a personality one. I certainly wouldn't presume to diagnose that!

Just out of interest, if you had fallen into this trap - and no, I know Gransnetters wouldn't, but just imagine - and the Sky reporter had door stepped you, what would have been your reaction? Would you have found a tree and hanged yourself, or just carried on and lived it down? Or even found another way, such as moving to another district?

Maybe it would depend upon how strong you were mentally and emotionally.

That post wasn't only addressed to janea btw.

So 'mentally unbalanced' is nothing like 'mentally unwell'??
So sorry jingl.
I'll really try to interpret your posts more carefully in future <goes off grovelling>

Suit yer flippin' self.

Apologies for mixing the two deaths up. The hanging was the murderer of the young girl. This lady died in an hotel room.

Were I to do something as nasty as this and be found out, I would move house. But even if I was tempted to do something like this the thought of the reactions of close family members and friends if it came out would keep me on the straight and narrow.

I'm with jingl and others on this one. I'd hazard a guess that some of us have in the past done things they now feel deeply ashamed about. Whilst it's not excusable as such, I'd err on the side of compassion. For whatever reason, she made wrong choices and got carried away, without thinking through the consequences - or maybe she was unable to do so. As jingl rightly says, it's not easy to distinguish whether someone has a mental health problem or an unfortunate character trait. It's a continuum, and even psychiatrists often find it difficult to tell. I speak from experience: my mental health diagnosis has been debated and discussed at nauseum, whilst I continue to wonder whether I am simply an unpleasant and subhuman individual for having the thoughts and feelings I have, who is finding that knowledge painful to accept.
As to the alleged killer of Alice Gross, we might never know the truth, but in this country people are presumed innocent till proven guilty. Try telling that to the lynch-mob media!

I agree with Rowantree that we all have done things which we wouldn't want others to find out about - but how many of us kept doing those things for several years? As I said before I regret the death of this woman and feel utmost sympathy for her family but she was obviously an educated intelligent woman who chose to join in a campaign of hate towards a couple she had never met who were suffering the loss of a child.

I am truly not obsessed with Brenda Leyland, but someone I know who is far more interested in this than I am has just told me about the level of abuse Brenda Leyland received on the Internet from supporters of the McCanns. You may say she asked for it by posting in the first place, but the level of abuse directed at her was shocking. She was threatened in the most graphic terms with rape, torture, and murder, all within the last few weeks. I believe the post mortem did not come up with a cause of death, so I really hope these people who called themselves 'the kind, caring supporters of the McCanns' are being sought by the police and ruled out of inquiries.

O M G!

Bloody technology. Is it worth it?

No, I wouldn't say she asked for it Nightowl.
Two wrongs don't make a right, and the internet has given free rein to the sort of people who support vigilantism in real life.
The due processes of law haven't kept pace with the speed at which cyber-technology has developed.

I wonder what research is going on into the individuals who hide behind the internet to express such dreadful threats and abuse to others.

I feel for BL's loved ones, to find your mother/sister/friend has behaved like this, and then taken their life is beyond words.

I agree, iam, about the horror of finding someone close to you has committed suicide.

I'm wondering now whether whoever found her, or any close family members, had any inkling of her trolling activities before what she had done became public. Or, to put it another way, I wonder if anyone close to her was totally surprised when her trolling became public knowledge or wherher they were aghast.

I wonder how many people she had really close to her.

Log of the tweets from her account