Man jailed over web rage attack Friday November 17, 04:59 PM

[milmor_1]

OK this story is a learning experience, we have rules on trackpads which prevent abuse of other web users. Anyone abuse me and I will find them and beat them with my MOUSE PAD. (JUST JOKING).

Man jailed over web rage attack Friday November 17, 04:59 PM


A man was jailed at the Old Bailey for Britain's first web rage attack on another internet user.

Paul Gibbons, 47, traced John Jones, 43, after they exchanged insults in a chatroom. He was armed with a pickaxe handle and was with a man with a machete.

Mr Jones, who had gone to the door of his home in Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, with a knife, was disarmed and had his neck cut by Gibbons.

Gibbons, unemployed, of Southwark, south London, was jailed for two-and-a half years for unlawful wounding.

He pleaded guilty last month when the prosecution agreed not to proceed with charges of attempted murder and threats to kill.

After that hearing, police warned internet users not to put personal details from which they could be traced on the web.

Judge Richard Hawkins told Gibbons: "It is accepted by the prosecution that Mr Jones taunted you and dared you to go to his house where you would be greeted with weapons."

Jonathan Green, defending, said Mr Jones had given the impression that he was the innocent victim, but his web blog "painted a different picture".

He said Mr Jones had been the first to initiate physical confrontation following web exchanges.

Mr Green said there was a misconception that anything said in chatrooms would be anonymous and led to things being written which people would not otherwise dream of saying or writing.

[Woodmonkey]

Not the MOUSE PAD, Mal!!!!!

Amazing how people just put their personal info out there with no thought about what it can lead to.

This is a good time to remind people that we automatically edit out personal info in posts when we see it.