A DOSSIER of online abuse directed at the parents of Madeleine McCann is being examined by police.
Members of the public have handed a file of more than 80 pages of Tweets, Facebook posts and forum messages aimed at Kate and Gerry McCann to Scotland Yard, according to Sky News.
The material posted by online trolls is said to have included suggestions that the couple should be tortured or killed.
One message board comment reportedly said: "These 2 should burn in hell." Other posts in the dossier included: "I hope that the McCanns are living in total misery" and "I want to see them smashed up the back of a bus or trampled by horses". Some messages were said to have been directed at Madeleine's younger siblings, now aged nine. The posts were gathered by people who are concerned about the abuse.
One campaigner, who did not wish to be named, told Sky News: "We're very worried that it's only going to take somebody to act out of some of these discussions, some of the threats that have been made, and we couldn't live with ourselves if that happened and we had done nothing."
The material is currently being assessed by police.
A Scotland Yard spokesman said: "We can confirm we received a letter and documentation on September 9, which was passed to officers from Operation Grange."
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