Leeds mum snared internet pervert:
An unidentified mother from Leeds in England gave police the information they needed to capture 29-year-old Philip Brown.
The woman did something that we don’t hear enough of, she actually parented. She actually caught the messages from brown on her daughter’s Netlog profile. She was able to get Brown’s cell number, set up a meeting then notified police.
But this being the UK Brown did not receive any jail time. He got three years of probation and is placed on the sex offenders registry.
He must also complete a three year programme designed to “rehabilitate” sex offenders and undertake 250 hours of unpaid work.
Which means he’ll probably be re-offending while they try to “rehabilitate” him. Rehabilitation is the exception not the norm.
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Wife murdered for Facebook status:
Back in May of last year 41-year-old Edward Richardson stabbed his 26-year-old estranged wife, Sarah Richardson, to death allegedly over changing her Facebook status to ‘single’. A British court sentenced Richardson to only 17 years in prison even though the attack was brazenly brutal.
However I admonish the BBC and every other media outlet for using such fear mongering headlines. Sarah Richardson wasn’t killed because of her Facebook status but because her husband was a jealous and psychotic prick. If it wasn’t Facebook she would have probably been killed for not returning his phone calls or some other petty crap.
Also this is another example of the light sentences handed out in the UK.
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Social websites lure youngsters into gangs:
Police and press really need to get their wording straight. This is about gangs in the UK that are using sites like Bebo to recruit new members…
Young people are being groomed into gang culture by a criminal element, a chief constable said today.
Norfolk police chief Ian McPherson said teenagers are being inadvertently drawn in by internet social networking sites.
How about no?
It’s not the site’s themselves that are drawing in kids to join gangs. I don’t think Bebo is taking advertisement money from gangs. It’s the gangs themselves that are drawing in the kids. It probably also has something to do with lax parenting but let’s not look at that. Let’s look at social sites instead. That must be the problem. Sheesh.
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Facebook vigilantes identify mother of Baby P:
Usually Facebook vigilantes come from Canada but today we have some old world vigilantes. and you’ve seen me post about Baby P here and here.
It seems that the British arm of Facebook vigilantes have revealed the identity of Baby P’s ‘mother’.
Of course Facebook was quick to squash this dissemination of illegal information. For legal reasons in the UK the ‘mother’ of Baby P’s identity is not supposed to be revealed.
And to answer your next question no I don’t have her name and if I did I wouldn’t publish it. I want her conviction to be by the book. Publishing her name would just give her room for appeal.
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Dozens of police officers who boasted on Facebook about crashing patrol cars keep their jobs:
Dozens of police officers in the UK have been disciplined over a Facebbok group where they bragged about crashing their patrol cars.
Dozens of officers joined a special Facebook group ‘Yes, I’ve had a polcol’ – short for police collision – to boast about smashing up their official vehicles.
The group showed pictures of crash after crash. In one, an officer gives the thumbs up as he poses by his mangled car which appears to be stuck under a tree.
More than 40 officers were involved. Of those, 18 have been formally disciplined, 14 were given written warnings and another nine were given advice.
While I don’t condone such behavior I have to remind the UK police something which I’ve also mentioned to their American counterparts. You above all people should know that nothing is private on the internet.
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Thousands of Facebook and MySpace gatecrashers turn up to girl’s 18th:
18-year-old Sarah Ruscoe invited 200 of closest friends to her 18th birthday party. That was before she posted about the party on MySpace and Facebook. Then 2,000 more people showed up and trashed her family’s £3million house.
Allegedly the party was also mentioned on BBC Radio 1 which broadcasts to all of England if I’m not mistaken.
Police with dogs and riot vans were called to break it up at around 9pm.
It just goes to show you that rich people aren’t necessarily bright.
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Gangs caught out by online boasts:
Apparently gangs in the UK are as smart as their US counterparts, which is not very.
They’ve been posting videos of themselves brandishing illegal weapons on sites like YouTube and Bebo. In return British police have been rounding them up.
Ch Insp Mulroonie said: “The message is that we don’t have to physically see you brandishing the weapon. If it’s posted on the website, we can use it as evidence.”
So keep those videos coming hoodies.
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Bebo cyber-bully faces jail after tricking friend into falling in love with fake profile:
In the vein of the Megan Meier tragedy a 17-year-old boy from the UK is under arrest after causing his friend to attempt suicide via Bebo. Bebo is a social site along the lines of MySpace that is very popular in the UK.
The 17-year-old created a fake identity on Bebo and pretended to be a admirer of his 16-year-old friend. This ruse went on for 3 months until the boy sent an e-mail from his real e-mail address still pretending to be the admirer.
The younger boy was hospitalised after overdosing on 30 paracetamol, 15 Buscopan and 15 ibuprofen tablets when he discovered his friend was behind the faux Bebo profile he had been emailing for three months.
The 17-year-old has pleaded guilty to harassment charges and will be sentenced next month.
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British Court Restricts Teen’s Net Use:
A British court has ordered an unnamed British youth to not post anti-social or abusive comments on the internet especially the popular social site Bebo.
Norwich Youth Court in eastern England issued an Anti-Social Behavior Order (Asbo) against a local 17-year-old implicated in petty criminal boasting on the online community Bebo.
Asbos are controversial control orders introduced by the Blair government in 1999 in an effort to clear Britain’s town centers of petty criminals, often called “hoodies” or “yobs.”
The Absos are usually used to keep yobs out of places like pubs and other public places from committing criminal activity but this is the first time an Abso has been applied to the web.
Continue reading ‘Yob ordered off Bebo’
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Man jailed over Facebook message:
Some poor shlub from the UK had the UK version of a restraining order put against him by his estranged wife.
Dylan Osborn, 37, had been ordered by magistrates not to contact his wife Claire Tarbox, after he harassed her with phonecalls and text messages.
Ok so I’m not feeling too sorry for him.
Anyway, when he signed up for a Facebook account Facebook allegedly sent automatic friend requests to everyone in his address book including his wife. It’s been a while since I signed up for Facebook. Does it really do this?
Since he made contact with his wife, inadvertent or not, he was ordered to spend 10 days in jail.
Ah the wonders of technology in the hands of people who don’t understand it.
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