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Warning over Tweets to Daley

Dorset Police investigating the Twitter abuse directed at British diver Tom Daley - after he finished fourth in the synchronised 10m diving - have issued a harassment warning to a 17-year-old arrested at a guest house in the Weymouth area.

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Tom Daley Twitter abuse 'appalling'

Deputy Mayor of the Olympic Village Duncan Goodhew has described the comments made by a Twitter troll against diver Tom Daley as "appalling".

Mr Goodhew, a gold and bronze medallist in swimming at the Moscow Olympics in 1980, said:

It is appalling that people behave that way. Becky Adlington, in fact, suffered probably far worse abuse, as well, if you remember the kerfuffle some years ago. I suppose that social media in one sense is fantastic, but turned the wrong way round it is very, very personal and it destroys people's lives. So I think people should be much more careful about what they say.

– Duncan Goodhew, Deputy Mayor of the Olympic Village

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