Internet troll jailed after mocking deaths of teenagers

An internet troll who posted videos and messages mocking the deaths of teenagers, including a girl hit by a train, has been jailed.

Sean Duffy, 25, targeted Facebook tribute pages and posted videos on YouTube taunting the dead and their families.

Among his victims was Natasha MacBryde, 15, who died instantly when hit by a passenger train near her home in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire.

The day after Natasha’s death in February, Duffy posted comments including I fell asleep on the track lolz on the Facebook tribute page created by her brother James, 17.

Four days later he created a YouTube video called Tasha the Tank Engine featuring her face superimposed on to the front of the fictional engine — via redwolf.newsvine.com