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_Will_
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PostPosted: 18:50 - 17 Nov 2006    Post subject: Internet abuse not just for the internet it seems. Reply with quote
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A man has been jailed at the Old Bailey for Britain's first web rage attack on another internet user.

Paul Gibbons, 47, traced John Jones, 43, after they exchanged insults in a chat room. He was armed with a pickaxe handle and was with a man with a machete.

Mr Jones, who had gone to the door of his home in Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, with a knife, was disarmed and had his neck cut by Gibbons.

Gibbons, unemployed, of Southwark, south London, was jailed for two-and-a half years for unlawful wounding.

He pleaded guilty last month when the prosecution agreed not to proceed with charges of attempted murder and threats to kill.

After that hearing, police warned internet users not to put personal details from which they could be traced on the web.

Judge Richard Hawkins told Gibbons: "It is accepted by the prosecution that Mr Jones taunted you and dared you to go to his house where you would be greeted with weapons."

Jonathan Green, defending, said Mr Jones had given the impression that he was the innocent victim, but his web blog painted a different picture.

He said Mr Jones had been the first to initiate physical confrontation following web exchanges.

Mr Green said there was a misconception that anything said in chatrooms would be anonymous and led to things being written which people would not otherwise dream of saying or writing.




That'l teach him not to abuse people over the net Shocked Laughing
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dransy
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PostPosted: 18:54 - 17 Nov 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
Think shaun should read this Laughing Laughing
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PostPosted: 19:30 - 17 Nov 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
There was one not long back where a moderator (i think) went nuts and killed 2 people off the forum in america Shocked
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PostPosted: 00:48 - 22 Nov 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
WOW! I used to live in Clacton-on-Sea. Thats pretty shocking, you open your front door just to have your throat slashed! eugh!
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