Man held over harassment of Brighton woman on Facebook
A man has been arrested on suspicion of harassing a Brighton woman on Facebook.
The 32-year-old man from Bournville in Birmingham was arrested yesterday (Tuesday 21 August) by detectives from Brighton and Hove CID and officers from West Midlands Police.
He is accused of misusing a computer to harass the woman online and has been bailed until Friday 19 October while Sussex Police detectives continue their investigation.
The victim complained about the abuse that she had received while using her Facebook account.
She believed that her account and e-mails had been hacked into by an unknown source.
Officers examined her computer as part of their investigation to try to trace the source of the abuse and the alleged security breach.
The arrest comes ten weeks after Nicola Brookes, 45, from Brighton, won a High Court case to unmask the identity of the internet troll or trolls who had been hounding her.
A judge ordered Facebook to reveal the personal details of the person or people who had impersonated and bullied her on the social networking site.
The online abuse started after she posted comments in support of the Woodingdean X-Factor contestant Frankie Cocozza.
I hope they throw the book at him. I am utterly fed up with seeing good people attacked and abused by gangs who use the social media websites and the rest of the internet as an anonymous play space where they can abuse innocent people for their own amusement.