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		<title>Who Told Reporter The Name Of The So Called McCann Twitter &#8220;Troll&#8221; Whose Tweets &#8220;Did Not Constitute A Criminal Offence&#8221;?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember Brenda Leyland, the lady who killed herself last October after being doorstepped by Sky News crime reporter Martin Brunt who accused her of being a “twitter troll” for posting “abusive” tweets about the parents of missing Madeleine McCann? There appears to be a bit of a mystery about how Brunt got the tip off. [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>Remember <em><strong><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/mar/20/sky-news-mccann-brenda-leyland">Brenda Leyland</a></strong></em>, the lady who killed herself last October after being doorstepped by Sky News crime reporter Martin Brunt who accused her of being a “twitter troll” for posting “abusive” tweets about the parents of missing Madeleine McCann?</p>
<p>There appears to be a bit of a mystery about how Brunt got the tip off.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/sky-news-reporter-devastated-mccann-troll-death-enormity-whats-happened-will-always-be-me"><em><strong>One report</strong></em></a> said that he came “into possession of a dossier of alleged Twitter &#8220;trolls&#8221; which had been handed to police by a third party”</p>
<p>But <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/mar/20/sky-news-mccann-brenda-leyland"><em><strong>another</strong></em></a> claimed “Brunt approached her after a dossier of tweets about the McCanns was passed to him by a source, whom he declined to reveal”</p>
<p>You would have thought that, since she took her own life soon after Brunt’s approach, the coroner should have pursued the question of the source a little more closely;</p>
<p>Did it come from the police – in which case was it passed to Brunt from a police officer?</p>
<p>Who obtained the information and gave it to the police in the first place – and how was the information obtained?</p>
<p>Did the source by pass the police and send it to Brunt directly?</p>
<p>But the coroner thought otherwise.</p>
<blockquote><p><strong><em>The coroner said she could not compel him to reveal it and that Brunt was not accused of any criminal offence</em></strong><strong>.</strong></p></blockquote>
<p>All very strange – especially when the police told the coroner</p>
<blockquote><p><strong><em>Her tweets did not constitute a criminal offence</em></strong></p></blockquote>
<p>In which case one might ask why didn’t the police simply close the file.</p>
<p>Am I the only person who thinks there are still some questions to be answered about this affair?</p>
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