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Police have launched an
investigation into a
catalogue of online threats
and abuse targeting the
family of missing Madeleine
McCann.
Scotland Yard has been
handed a dossier of more
than 80 pages of Tweets,
Facebook posts and messages
on online forums aimed at
her parents Kate and Gerry
McCann.
Internet “trolls”, usually
hiding behind anonymous
social media accounts, have
posted the messages since
2007 when Madeleine, then
aged three, disappeared from
their holiday resort in
Praia de Luz, Portugal.
Sky News reported that the
abuse included suggestions
that the McCanns be tortured
and killed, reports of
recent sightings of the …
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