Pair jailed for sending abusive tweets to feminist campaigner
Isabella Sorley, 23, has been jailed for 12 weeks and John Nimmo sentenced to eight weeks after the pair admitted sending abusive tweets to the feminist campaigner Caroline Criado-Perez.
Police release mugshots of Twitter trolling duo
The Metropolitan Police has released mugshots of the pair who were jailed for sending abusive Twitter messages to feminist campaigner Caroline Criado-Perez.
Isabella Sorley, 23, of Newcastle was sentenced to 12 weeks imprisonment, while 25-year-old John Nimmo, of South Shields, was handed an eight-week sentence.
They were also ordered to pay £800 in compensation for "sending by means of a public electronic communications network messages which are menacing in character."
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