UK diver Tom Daley subjected to abuse by Twitter user @Rileyy_69
WARNING: Some content in this post may be considered offensive and contains strong language.
Twitter user @Rileyy_69, who rather vainly describes himself as “gorgeous and the sweetest boy ever, two in one!!” sent this tweet to Tom Daley, the Team GB diver, after he missed out on a medal at the Olympics
http://twitter.com/Rileyy_69/status/229980416176689152
Daley’s father passed away just a few months earlier due to cancer. After a barrage of criticism from other Twitter users, Rileyy69 suddenly became apologetic:
http://twitter.com/Rileyy_69/status/229988823063465985
http://twitter.com/Rileyy_69/status/229991840261238785
He then claimed he hadn’t known that Tom’s dad had passed away, and locked his account. Later he reopened the account and began sending more abuse to Tom, including a threat to “drown [Daley] in the pool”.
ЯIᄂΣY JЦПIӨЯ @Rileyy_69
“@tomdaley1994 i’m going to find you and i’m going to drown you in the pool you cocky t*** your a nobody people like you make me sick”
30 Jul 12
(The user has now removed the tweet, presumably in an attempt to destroy evidence, so a plain text version is above)
http://twitter.com/Rileyy_69/status/230040170458673152
The Twitter user then appeared to think that him being reported about by the media amounted to harrassment
http://twitter.com/Rileyy_69/status/230014862095421440
He then started threatening other Twitter users who had come to Daley’s defence:
http://twitter.com/Rileyy_69/status/230050716587286529
Rileyy_69 then tried to use freedom of speech to defend himself, not realising that the right to freedom of speech and expression is actually a qualified right, meaning the Government can interfere with it where necessary. For example, the Twitter user is now liable to prosecution for harassing Daley, and for threatening to drown him.
The following laws apply in this situation:
Protection from Harassment Act 1997 - states that it is unlawful to cause harassment, alarm or distress by a course of conduct and states that ‘A person must not pursue a course of conduct, which:
- amounts to harassment of another
- he knows, or ought to know, amounts to harassment of the other.’
The police have successfully used the Protection from Harassment Act to prosecute for the sending of offensive e-mails through the internet. Such messages will also constitute an offence under the Malicious Communications Act.
Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 - A person is guilty of an offence if, with intent to cause a person harassment, alarm or distress, he/she
- uses threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour or disorderly behaviour; or
- displays any writing, sign or other visible representation which is threatening, abusive or insulting, thereby causing that or another person harassment, alarm or distress.
Malicious Communications Act 1998/Telecommunications Act 1984 - it is an offence to send an indecent, offensive or threatening letter, electronic communication or other article to another person. Under section 43 of the Telecommunications Act 1984 it is a similar offence to send a telephone message which is indecent, offensive or threatening.
Communications Act 2003 - Section 127 states that a person is guilty of an offence if he/she
- sends by means of a public electronic communications network a message or other matter that is grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character; or
- causes any such message or matter to be so
- A person is guilty of an offence if, for the purpose of causing annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety to another by means of a public electronic communications network, a message that he/she knows to be false,
- causes such a message to be sent; or
- persistently makes use of a public electronic communications network
Above information courtesy of http://www.respectme.org.uk/Cyberbullying-and-the-law.html#harassment
[...] Diamonds Watch. Whitened Mother of Pearl Dial using Diamonds Watch. P: Xbox 360, BF3, NFS: Shift UK diver Tom Daley subjected to abuse by Twitter user @Rileyy_69 [...]
I believe the messages he sent are evil and boarder on psychotic behaviour. However I am surprised that so many people fail to see how vicious these messages are and think that the police should stay out of it. Obviously these people are immune to this type of behaviour because there is so much violence on the media these days. One thing for certain when people are exposed to violence long enough they tend to accept it as the norm and seek even more gruesome ways to amuse themselves and shock others.
[...] Twitter user who insulted athlete Daley went on to make real threats. I think those threats justify legal action against him, in a way that mere opinion [...]
Just a total and utter sicko, its just horrible that people like riley are in this world, to the people who defend them and say its just childish behaviour.
They dont grow out of this. they carry it on for as long as they live, they need to be taught a lesson by been arrested and jailed.
What are your opinions on @Rileyy_69′s Twitter abuse of young Olympic diver Tom Daley? And were police right to make an arrest?…
EDIT – details added as suggested by Christopher Rubin (thank you!) CNN outline of the story here: http://edition.cnn.com/2012/07/31/sport/tom-Daley-twitter-arrest/index.html All the tweets here: http://thedigitalreport.net/2012/07/uk-diver-tom-daley-s…
[...] arrest is more likely to be related to later, more agressive tweets including actual death threats. Hot topics you might [...]
[...] Daley retweeted the message, saying, “After giving it my all…you get idiot’s sending me this.” Outraged, Daley’s legions of fans on Twitter rallied to his defense and told @Rileyy_69 exactly what they thought of him. @Rileyy_69 at first apologized to Daley, but then threatened to drown the diver in the pool. (You can see a timeline of @Rileyy’s tweets here.) [...]
Tom daleys an amzing diver just because he didnt win gold dosnt measn he failed hes quite young so just shut up!!!!!!!!!
tom daleys amazing hes quite young so shut up dude yea he may have not come first but so what!!!!!!
[...] Daley retweeted the message, saying, “After giving it my all…you get idiot’s sending me this.” Outraged, Daley’s legions of fans on Twitter rallied to his defense and told @Rileyy_69 exactly what they thought of him. @Rileyy_69 at first apologized to Daley, but then threatened to drown the diver in the pool. (You can see a timeline of @Rileyy’s tweets here.) [...]
[...] fact that the police have become involved in the way they have still makes me uneasy. Having read what @Rileyy_69 posted, his stream of messages appear to me to be more the ravings of a frustrated youth. They read like [...]
this lad is just a desperate attention seeker, a school bully with a disgusting mouth! cant stand people like him..
Thanks to all the Daley’s fanboys – society moves one step closer to eliminating free speech. Have fun over in UK with you 20k+ army roaming the streets, just remember it will all come back and bite you – when you’re old enough to realize what’s going on.
[...] it is thought that Daley could bring charges if he wanted to (though whether they’d stand in court is another matter). And there are many [...]
[...] The Digital Report has an excellent and exhaustive description of the Twitter posts which led up to James’ arrest: http://thedigitalreport.net/2012/07/uk-diver-tom-daley-subjected-to-abuse-by-twitter-user-rileyy_69/ [...]
*Deceased*
He’s quite partial to abusing a guy named ‘Olly’ …He describes Necrophilia and Desecration of the decease and as well as Murder….Clearly a Disturbed child..who as a guess was abused and will most probebly grow to become a peadophile. I could be shooting for the fence here but I also could be correct
Is it just me or do the tweets written after the account was reactivated seem like they’re written by a different person? Maybe he’d just had a can of cider by then.
I feel sorry for the guy really he must have some serious issues, I hope he gets some help.
correction: The Olly Riley Twitter scandal was 4 weeks* ago not 4 months and also the full description on @Rileyy_69′s Twitter is “@rileyy_69 is gorgeous and the sweetest boy ever, two in one!! You should follow him because I say so, love @ellieldavies x x” not so vain if someone else wrote it I think?
First of all I’d like to start by saying this has all been blown out of proportion, I’ve had worse said to me on a night out in town never mind on Twitter, may I also point out that while I do not condone @Rileyy_69′s behavior Tom Daley also retweeted hate tweets against Riley calling him to be banned from the social networking site. I am 17 and as a young student I keep highly up to date with this stuff, I would like to point out that no more than 4 months ago this Olly Riley character @Rileyy_69 “threatened” was also trending worldwide with people calling him a pervert and asking him to be banned because he claimed to have a fetish for “girls in knee high socks” and asked for them to send pictures of them wearing them, harmless in some ways but Twitter was bombarded with hate and girls (many under 16) sending Olly pictures of themselves posing (albeit clothed if not much clothing at that) over Twitter allowing them to be viewed publicly leaving them at open view for anyone (i.e. pedophiles to see) all I’m trying to say is that whilst I do not approve of @Rileyy_69′s behavior, people need to stop being so niave, each side of the so called “threatened” has dirt on their hands, that is all.
[...] Act 2003, which criminalises electronic messages of an indecent, obscene or menacing character. (This post – which includes many of the offensive tweets in question – details the legal [...]
What Rileyy_69 said was completely wrong, yes, and i don’t dispute this fact. But to have a witch hunt and have him arrested is a bit OTT. I think the police should be looking into actual crimes not a silly little boy who tweets rubbish.
Everyone on twitter has a block button, and can put their accounts on private… so i don’t see what the big deal is. If this hadn’t been Tom Daley it wouldn’t have got anywhere near this far. And what next now, every tweet that people don’t like is reported to the police? Get real!
Whats even worse about this is the fact that the police don’t seem to take bullying in real life quite as serious as over twitter, numerous kids try and take their own life due to bullying and whats done, nothing!
Then there are those ‘defending’ Tom Daley by tweeting this rileyy back with possibly even worse threats, so what makes these people any better? Shouldn’t they all be getting investigated too for sending harassment tweets?
Its just ridiculous, if everyone had ignored it, blocked him and forgot about it, like what probably Tom Daley has already done then it would have just gone away, but no the twitter mob went on a witch hunt and now this Rileyy_69 has got his 5 minutes of ‘fame’ which no doubt he will sell his story to the papers, blaming everyone else for his behaviour because of some ‘dreadful’ childhood experience or whatever and make a shed load of cash off the back of this stupid tweet. So well done twitter, ‘punishing’ a dreadful comment by giving him the opportunity to make a load of cash from it. i think thats what they call a FAIL.
http://govtslaves.info/u-k-blogger-olly-cromwell-arrested-for-using-the-word-cunt-on-twitter/
Oh dear. Rileyy could be lucky to see freedom again this side of his 21st.
Re Lingo:
The phone number being Tweeted is the one Rileyy posted on his timeline a couple of days earlier. If he places his own phone number in the public domain and people drag it back up – well that is his problem.
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Also, I don’t know why so many people are getting uptight about the police arresting him. If this was 20 years ago and he was posting letters to these people he’d be doing porridge for harrasment. Just like he will be this time roung for all his racist tweets. The kid who abused Muamba got 56 days. Rileyy will be lucky to get away with less than double that.
lynchmob britain strikes again!! there are thousands of people around the world being tortured and abused for no reason.a bit of name calling on twatter and everyone who has no business interfering in the first place join the bandwagon and stick up for a public figure who is perfectly capable of looking after himself.the guy who tweeted originally was a bit insensitive but come on get real everyone what he actually wrote wasnt that bad until all the other trolls started making empty threats.a persons opinion on twitter is totally unimportant so all the hard men making reverse threats are just as bad,load of kids all of them.carry on playing your pc games and eating wotsits saddos.
tim twyford – ‘what he actually wrote wasn’t that bad’ – you obviously haven’t read his Twitter feed. This scum bag’s death threats, racial abuse, sexual abuse and the list goes on, has been doing this for a long time before the Tom Daley episode. Who knows what this could lead to.
Research psychological studies about anonymity. People become darker versions of themselves when they think they can’t be seen. Look at the trolls in every comment section. It’s enough to lose faith in humanity. I’m starting to think everything a person posts should be automatically linked to the poster. That would make people think twice before spewing sh*t just to stir the pot.
Plus, I don’t see a “joke” or a “mistake” of anger being tweeted about Tom’s recently dead dad is either funny or something to get away with, do you?
[...] Il ragazzino arrestato era un coglione che aveva dei grossi problemi, come viene dimostrato quando si legge tutta la storia. Quando si dice che sul web non ci sono regole, si sbaglia. In realtà c’è la sempre troppo [...]
I wonder why there are so many comments on here saying: – ooh if he wasn’t famous, nothing would be done. That is irrespective of what this troll did. He threatened someone’s life – THAT is illegal. People get reported on twitter ALL the time and they DO get visits by police, only we don’t hear about it because it’s not with a topical person.
@Antitrollpatrol “they DO get visits by police, only we don’t hear about it because it’s not with a topical person.”
Do they really? Could you perhaps give half a dozen examples of cases in which ordinary people who’ve reported threats on Twitter have caused the police to be mobilised?
Actually, yes. The police may not be able to “mobalise” but they can certainly put someone in jail for harrassing someone on twitter if it is formally complained about. The complaint can be from absolutely anyone – even from someone who doesn’t know that person who lives the other side of England. If the police think this is a valid complaint of re-occurring assault then they have the power and lawful right to arrest or to visit this person’s house because the complaint has been official. It doesn’t matter if you are “famous” or “twitter famous” or “facebook famous,” etc, if someone complains to the police there will be a look into the case. Plus, Tom Daley is a celebrity and if you’re looking at it that way then that means he has the right to be abused on twitter because he probably won’t see it? Don’t be absurd. No one does. If you’re being bullied and you’re not famous and no one else is complaining then tell an organisation or “block” or make your account private. Additionally, you can complain to the police for yourself if you can prove that you are innocent. Therefore, anyone – and I mean ANYONE – who writes abuse about ANYONE on twitter can and most likely will be prosecuted in the event of harassment. I think that is one of the best laws we have as the likelihood it rules out the possibility of someone being cyber bullied by this person in future is so great. I think twitter and social networking sites have gotten extremely out of hand. No one deserves to be treated like that. I think parents should be more responsible with how they observe their child’s social networking, otherwise – who is?
[...] arrested. You can also find reference to a death threat that many articles neglect to mention, here. This is a [...]
I think what Riley was saying was out of order, he said he made a ‘mistake’ when all he was doing was being horrible and abusive to Tom. I think the fact that he brough Tom’s dad into it was just sickening, Tom tweeted “After the toughest year of my life, today is the day! I just want to thank everyone for all their support no matter what the outcome x” before diving and yet Riley found the need to hate on Tom. I don’t know about Tom but I was close to tears reading all the horrible tweets. I hope Tom all the best for next Friday in the induviduals, hope he wins gold because he deserves it.
[...] However, such is the nature of Twitter - Daley’s sharing of this admittedly vitriolic stuff led to wider awareness of his behaviour and even a mention on Sky News! Mr. 69 was not pleased about this, to say the least, and his timeline turned into a rather sweary, threatening affair, apparently including a wish that Daley would drown in a pool. Could possibly be considered a death threat, though I haven’t seen the actual tweet and whether he threatened to do this himself – or if it was, rather a deathwish (neither of which are pleasant but I’m sure we agree a threat is much worse). [Edit: ok, it looks like a threat] [...]
Every action should have a consequence.
Until you’ve been in a position where you’ve been on the receiving end of threats of death and violent sexual assault you don’t know what it feels like. Of course you can try and laugh it off but at the back of your mind you know that some people really are disturbed enough to carry them out. Real, hate-filled death threats are miles away from the #twitterjoke trial, and are the definition of menacing behaviour.
Funnily enough, I had never heard of this little boy until Graham Linehan posted something about him. It’s amazing how easy it is to find out stuff about this boy online and then send it to the Police via their link on their website. His YouTube videos are a joke; he gives out his name and location in them whilst neatly encapsulating all that in an unpleasantly abusive video showing his face. Handy.
If I had found this boy before, I would have done it sooner but I don’t go trawling Twitter for users that flout the law and/or post racist/homophobic abuse or threats to kill.
I didn’t join in the abuse on Rileyy_69, merely reported him to the Police for investigation. If no crime had been committed then at least they would have looked into it.
You know what? I’d do it again too.
Flame away.
While Tweeters are generally advised to ignore the trolls, I think that the fact that Riley will (hopefully) have learnt his lesson and won’t do it again is a good outcome.
While a witch hunt may not be ideal, it certainly worked.
As for the hate tweets to Riley, sure they may be illegal but is anyone going to arrest those Tweeters? Riley has no case!
[...] suspicion of malicious communications – although the arrest is more likely to be related to later, more agressive tweets including actual death [...]
Kishan, a follow does not represent a ‘like’. People now want to monitor this – quite naturally. Don’t read too much into follows. They don’t equal popularity.
It underlines the central weakness of Twitter: the obsession with “Followers”.
At the height of the melodrama, this kid had 40,000+ followers, which gave him the resulting attention he initially craved. But he messed up by continuing the abuse, leading to his arrest, after the inevitable twitstorm. Future trolls will learn from his mistake, but also his success …
[...] *I should note at this point, I’m fully aware that the second coming of this Twitter account was quite disgusting and fully worthy of arrest. Read more here. [...]
Riley was being very rude to Tom; I was defending tom from other abuse. When I saw Riley’s comments I was livid. Why would you do that? Why? Then I saw his apology and thought; ‘ You are a relay strange man.’ Then later on he started to give more abuse; and locked his account. Then started threatening sky news. Wow. Their are some really pathetic people..
This Riley kid hasn’t deleted his twitter account, his just renamed it, his called Rileey_69 now not Rileyy_69 and his still sending horrible abusive messages to Tom Daley and everyone supporting him
Riley…
That’s is the most Awkward coming out/confession of love I have ever seen. Its okay yo be gay – ignore what your ‘crew’ say.
These were not the comments of a rational, sane young person, but of a persecuted and disturbed mind. The place for young Riley is a secure mental health institution. He needs help and protection, arresting him will only vindicate his persecution complex. He’s clearly well down the line. Prison is only going too make him worse.
You should look at all the other death threats he’s made to people and their families, there are so many twitter trolls twitter need to be more aware of this and put some policies and barriers up!
[...] suspicion of malicious communications – although the arrest is more likely to be related to later, more agressive tweets including actual death [...]
Death threats were also made to @Rileyy_69 once the mob got over excited by this stupid boys pathetic rant, if he’s nicked for it so should they be along with the people posting personal details such as phone numbers.
If Daley had blocked him or simply ignored him job done but he retweeted several times the get rileyy banned hash tag causing a witch hunt that so many were too keen to take part in.
There are plenty of people at fault including Daley himself in my opinion.
There’s a difference though – no I don’t agree with the people that posted up his number or in turn threatened him, but by the same token you can’t equate people that tried to defend an innocent person who contributes massive amounts to society with a person who is at best a complete moron and at worst an arrogant, aggressive thug. Who was the one who iniatiated the hate? Who said something appalling and hurtful because it was ‘a dare/ a joke/ an angry response to being jealous’ (all excuses Riley used)? No it is not the same. If you were Tom Daley wouldn’t you be angry? He didn’t say ‘lynch Riley’, he just repeated what the idiot had written to him. There’s nothing to blame about that. We shouldn’t be pandering to and protecting such vile people, even if they are just stupid, and saying other people are to blame for this is nonsense. Try to cause innocent people pain in such a cruel, thoughtless way, you shouldn’t just be patted on the head and get a ‘there, there – he obviously has issues.’
And no, I’m not in uproar because Tom Daley was a celebrity. I just congratulate him for highlighting the existence of such an excuse for a human so that he can be dealt with before his stupid actions affect others.
What I really don’t get is why is his twitter follower count INCREASING??? Shouldn’t it go down now?
People following, retweeting him, replying to his tweets him just makes him do this crap…people need to stop giving him so much attention!
With communications now instant and omnipresent we need a way to deal with this kind of unpleasant abuse. The current method, under law as stated above, seems cumbersome, expensive and heavy-handed. ISPs and social network companies can get involved in drawing up a code of conduct (some have them already, but this should be universal). Offenders can be traced, identified and prevented from peddaling their narcisistic tripe.
I’m no techie, and no doubt there are ways to get around ‘blocking’ (using a different IP address, for one). But a long line of dubious court cases, where expensive lawyers can wriggle clients out of anything but red-handed murder, is not the answer.
That guys a total twat tbh
Not only did he threaten Daley, He also threatened many other users on twitter who came to Daley’s defence, he previously made vile comments about committing sexual assault on a twitter user’s dead sister. He has also made racist comments on YouTube.
No-one is any doubt what the law is. The problem is that it seems to be selectively applied, and only when a “celebrity” is involved.
Do you seriously imagine that if you – as an ordinary citizen – went to the police station after some teenager had ‘threatened’ you on Twitter, that uniformed officers would be dispatched to raid his house and arrest him that very same evening?
The number of cases in which repeated ACTUAL threats, violence and intimidation have been ignored or not investigated by the police and which have subsequently led to someone being physically harmed are legion. Yet someone says an unpleasant thing online, directed at a well-known sportsman and Dorset Police springs into action en masse.
The whole exercise seems to me to point to some middle-management grade Plod looking to make a name for him/herself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQtAAMwjiIU
here’s one of the videos hes created
I’m really not comfortable with the police getting involved in this. The problem is that talking out of your backside on the internet is part of the culture. This kid wasn’t a threat to these people, he never had any intention of carrying out these acts they’re simply the response of an emotionally scarred human lashing out.
The other concerning element in this story is the bullying of this kid (deserved or no), I’d imagine that several hundred twitter users have harassed him, possibly breaking the law themselves. If any have broken the law isn’t Daley then responsible for hate speech which is yet another offence?
The matter should have ended with twitter banning this guy not the plod taking him away in handcuffs.
Sorry but who’s to know what threats are empty and what are genuine? The police should get involved in this. It isn’t acceptable for people to behave like this just because they feel invincible behind their keyboard. Hopefully an example can be made of this scrote. I hope it serves as a warning to others who think it’s ok to behave like this.
So you believe it’s a good use of police time to use legislation to penalise people who say the wrong thing over the internet?
If so the police need to get every tweet that was sent by the mob to Riley and arrest anyone who has objectively caused offence to or threatened him through those.
I’ve got a better idea: let the internet deal with internet problems (as the twitter community did in this instance) anyone who actually feels threatened can go to the police and request their help but I really doubt Daley did, he knew it was a guy being a dick.
In the mean time the police that I help pay for can work on actual crime like the increase of burglaries (that my local community at least, has seen in the past year).
It IS a good use of police time to investigate death-threats.
How do you know he is not going to act upon his threats? The thing about the Internet is that people can hide behind false identities. This could have been a real threat. Only because the police have acted, we know it is a 17 year old trying to be a bad boy but it might not have been. Besides, using electronic means to harass people is as much against the law as other forms of harassment. Sadly when I was being Harassed by email and text it was before the 2003 legislation became law so the police could not act. All they could advise was to delete the offending messages but it is not that easy. By then the damage has been done.
Dave, so you think ‘this kid wasn’t a threat to these people, he never had any intention of carrying out these acts they’re simply the response of an emotionally scarred human lashing out.’ Try telling that to the families of the 12 dead and 58 injured at the Colorado cinema. I’ll bet James Holmes started off as ‘an innocent troll.’ But never mind, like BevyRay suggests, he just needs some love and a hug poor thing! Really!
This is complete and utter bullshit. @Rileyy_69 harassed an innocent person just because he didn’t win, winning isin’t everything, at least he gave it his best shot. Riley should be prosecuted and heavily fined for his actions. Little scum bag. @Mandaa____
I think you’ll find that making threats of physical harm is against the law in most countries. If he didn’t make threats and just insulted people, then police involvement would be unwarranted. He may be an annoying, mixed-up chav prat with obvious anger issues, but that shouldn’t be against the law, no matter how offensive he is. He crossed the line when made those threats.
I accept that this boy is totally wrong and crazy. But if he had made these statements in asia, africa or other parts of the world, would they have over there to arrest him?
I accept this boy is totally wrong and crazy. But if he had made these statements from asia, africa or other parts of the world, would they have gone over there to arrest him?
Rileyy_69 is a little keyboard warrior who is gonna end up on jeremy kyle, he can’t say nothing about Tom! He’s a national treasure, respected by the whole country; doing us all proud ESPECIALLY his dad!! I hope the little cretin gets charged, and made to give Tom a formal apology as well as his family! Its disgusting the way he’s went on. And if he doesn’t get charged for this, it truly shows that the law don’t care tbh.
I hope he’s put some vaseline around his arse, he’s going to be feeling the burn from some massive guy tearing through him every other day……FACT!
Do you seriously think this turd will end up doing jail time? Not a chance. He’ll be fined and bound to keep the peace at the most.
I see, hoping somebody rapes this lad is acceptable in reply to some stupid idiotic tweets? You need to look in a mirror. #disgrace
What Rileyy said to Tom was out of order and I’m glad so many people defended Tom Daley and continue to support him through the rest of the Olympics, I’m sure he’ll do very well in the individuals. However I think there should be further investigations into Rileyy’s previous tweets as I have seen that many of these are sick and hurtful things being said to innocent twitter users. I’m very surpised how quickly Dorset police managed to find this boy and arrest him. Keep going Tom you’ll do everyone proud as always!
Hi,
As much as I agree with your opinions, and I do fully, it wasn’t only Tom that was being sent tweets to. Another ‘twitter famous’ person, _OllyRiley (who is mentioned here) has been being ‘harassed’ and whatnot by this said ‘Rileyy_69′ for many months. I’m sure they will use the tweets that most people have screenshots of, of these tweets when they press charges. Most of the media only care about what happened to Tom, which I totally agree is barbaric, but they miss out on other things that he did in the past, changing some people’s opinions.
Hopefully these other tweets will come to their attention when needed to show further harassment from Rileyy_69. (Spme of the tweets include talking about ‘fisting’ and other stuff the other boy’s sister who died and that they were dancing on her grave and whatnot)
Thanks! ( I wasn’t having a go at your post, merely adding in my own opinions!
If this “rileyy_69″ boy does not get prosicuted then the reasons why are beyond me. The teen goes on quest with his childlike behaviour to upset a number of people in the public. The comments I read to one of Britians idols genuinely upset me. The boy not only made those vile comments to a star but he goes out of his way to upset other twitter users like ‘ollyriley’ using death threats, and the excuse for some of these is somebody hacked his count. If this boy does not see the consequences of his actions then we need to take a further look into why these laws even stand. I’m sure me and 1000s of other will happily see this boy taken down as he is quite and simple an absolute joke to humanity.
So let me get this straight, if those comments were directed at some Joe Soap they wouldn’t bother you so much, but because they were directed at someone you consider an “idol”, then he deserves to be prosecuted? Sure, what this little prat said was absolutely out of order, but it was no more or less out of order because it was said to a so-called celebrity.
I think you should re-read what you responded to.
yes his comments to tom daily where distasteful. as for his threat ollyriley from reading the posts it was made after ollyriley made a veiled threat himself
Some previous behaviour:
https://p.twimg.com/AzHfg1JCIAABWAN.jpg:large
https://p.twimg.com/AzHaQkeCIAA9NMQ.jpg:large
https://yfrog.com/a/img877/985/zkgql.jpg
Tw*tter is the most pointless medium ever.
This story illustrates why.
The End.
How this timeline isn’t getting into the media is beyond me, I find it unbelievable that people are getting less than half the story, which is leading to confusion. I read the timeline last night as did alot of people which must have included the Dorset police who did a fantastic job of tracking this boy down so quickly. British journalists make me sick, does no one bother doing investagative journalism anymore.
“Dorset police… did a fantastic job of tracking this boy down so quickly.” Are you having a laugh? What is so ‘fantastic’ about asking Twitter to forward his details then looking him up on the PNC? You make it sound like they had to get Columbo in.
this is amazing
This boy is a sick disgusting person. He has threatens and upset many people on twitter and we all want him Locked up! He is a disgrace to the country! Can’t believe his parents let him do this!
@realDanni_Davis
‘We all want him locked up’
Please dear, don’t speak for me. You have no idea if I want him locked up or not.
Thanks much!
Rileyy_69 is clearly a very angry young man. The comments made to Tom Daley were I agree unacceptable, but am I the only one concerned by the public’s response to this boy.
He obviously needs to face the consequences of his actions but has received a ridiculous amount of hate messages (#Rileyy_69) from the general public. What makes the things being said to Rileyy_69 any different to what was said to Daley? Both are bullying/Harassment.
If this boy (and I stress boy) has made a silly mistake, can you imagine the impact of this horrible witch hunt. Would the general public be satisfied with a suicide on their conscience?
Hate is a desperate cry for love.
He has been harassing other people and insulting them, threatening them etc for many years now and thats why he is getting so much hate. It’s not just hate because of what he did to Tom Daley but also what he has done to many others for awhile…the Daley incident is just a catalyst…I’m happy to see though that he has been arrested but seriously, I don’t get why his follower count has increased by half?
BevyRay
This sick sadistic scum bag tweeted to another ‘boy’ whose sister had died,’I'm stood on your sister’s grave and p*ssing all over it.’ That was only one of the repeatable message I read. Would you still feel the same if he did the same to a deceased member of your family? I doubt it. But never mind, poor thing, he just needs a hug!! Really!!
You make me sick rileyy how can you say that after previously losing both my grandparents and mum to cancer i know how it feels to be alone where noone cares about you. you really need to consider why you said this and think before you ‘tweet’ about people
I was involved defending Tom Daley can you please make sure the trolls twitter account is permenatly closed thanks
His now protected timeline had abuse about (but not tweeted to) Tom Daley on 27th July too. Also made several death threats to to other users in the past week and has some National Front eque views on Asian and Black people.
Yes – but he wasn’t arrested for all his past sins. He was only arrested when he went after a “National Hero”. Double standards.
He was only arrested after it came into the public domain. If none of the 20000 idiots who were already following him reported it then the police aren’t psychic. You have no idea the full reasoning behind the arrest.
Why weren’t the people that sent death threats to Riley also arrested. I agree that that Riley guy was wrong but to be arrested seems very much over the top for what effectively is immature playground stuff.
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