Twitter: Man jailed for religious and racial comments on Twitter

[Jo]

A man who sent offensive messages on Twitter regarding the murder of Leeds teacher Ann Maguire has been jailed for eight weeks.

Twitter troll Robert Riley wrote on the social media website, using the handle jongriley001, that he would have killed "all the bastard teachers" at Corpus Christi School in Leeds.

The 42-year-old from Cwmavon, Port Talbot, also posted a series of racist tweets in which he called the Nazi death camp Auschwitz a "health spa", and suggested that Muslim babies should be drowned.

Despite being confronted by a backlash from other Twitter users, Riley initially revelled in his new found notoriety, and boasted that he had the "biggest gob this side of the River Severn".

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[dendrast]

Some people never grow up. He's going to have a good time in gaol with a mouth like that.

 

[NobleSavage]

He deserves to be humiliated, but not thrown in jail. People should be allowed to same dumb things.

 

[Underseer]

He deserves to be humiliated, but not thrown in jail. People should be allowed to same dumb things.

Indeed. Freedom of speech must protect offensive speech or it's kinda useless since the whole point is to allow speech that offends even those in power.