According to the Oxford Mail, Rachel North's cyberstalker has been apprehended by Police. I have been unable to verify it with Rachel directly as she has gone away for a few days but the article seems pretty definite.
MIDNIGHT UPDATE: I have just got back from an evening out and I am appalled at the bile on this thread. I've deleted half of the comments. As BJ says, there are too many nutters commenting on this blog at the moment. It's not clever and it's not funny. I have a very liberal comments policy but if this continues I will switch moderation back on.
This is good news indeed.
ReplyDeleteGood, I hope she gets help.
ReplyDeleteCalm down, calm down - anyone would have thought she'd killed someone..
ReplyDeleteExcellent news. Further down the article the police are quoted confirming the arrest. I hope that is now case closed.
ReplyDeleteNow Rachel can get on with life, and FJL can get some help.
Matt
ha, ha, ha!
ReplyDeletelet's just hope our learned friends on the bench don't see fit to give Ms Lounde bail this time!
Unconfirmed as yet, but I understand that Lowde has been remanded until the end of the month for psychiatric reports and got shredded by the judge for good measure.
ReplyDeleteOn remand! Have fun, Felicity in Cell Block H whilst awaiting reports and sentencing!
ReplyDeleteThey will need to fly in a team of psychiatrists from Switzerland who can work on her case 24-7 to crack that nut.
Iain: have you ever felt at any time that you were the subject of a witch-hunt? Just wondered.
ReplyDeleteDaaahling, if you don't have a cyber-stalker you are simply nobody these days...
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ReplyDeleteGood to see that mental health has gotten past the stage where people resort to cheap, lazy, prejudicial stereotyping about fruit and nut cakes... That is so last century...
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ReplyDeleteDare I suggest that the 'witty and harmless' banter from Hitch and the like is about as helpful as crying wolf?
ReplyDeleteA little sensible moderation wouldn't go astray.
How nice to see "Tim" posting on Iain's blog again.
ReplyDeleteShame he won't be here for very long...
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ReplyDeleteanonymous @ 9:05pm, please be aware that Iain Dale has little time for anonymous cowards.
ReplyDeleteDon't make me call teacher.
Well the papers seem to think she is caught, well done the boys and girls in blue on that one,
ReplyDeleteTim:
ReplyDeleteI don't have a problem with anything that you post. Sometimes, I even agree with your comments.
I just think it's really funny that you keep putting posts on Guido and Iain's blogs, only to see them deleted soon after.
I have looked at your sites and, for reasons best know to yourself, it seems that you have little else to comment on apart from Guido and Iain.
Strange...
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ReplyDeleteYes. Obviously I should be commenting anonymously like your good self.
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ReplyDeleteGalloway heading for perjury charges.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article1901474.ece
Tim:
ReplyDeleteI'm commenting anonymously because, unlike yourself, I have a real life away from blogs and can't be bothered getting involved in the sort of pathetic vendettas that seem to make up most of your waking hours.
I consider posting on blogs as a form of amusing sport - and not my only raison d'etre.
But if you want to keep pushing this line, then be my guest.
jus' passin' thru': At least I don't hide behind anonymous postings like yourself. Keep it up. We now know that the police do track down cyber-stalkers. Bear it in mind...
ReplyDeletePlenty of people who 'have a life away from blogs' have the good sense and common courtesy to comment under their own name or at least a central identity.
ReplyDeleteWhen sock-puppeting and bullying gets out of control, it can enable (or lead to) situations like Rachel's and a very recent one local to me.
That's of some concern to me, but if it's all the same to you, I'd like to continue this discussion somewhere more appropriate... where perhaps you'd care to put a real voice behind that opinion. Cheers.
Tim:
ReplyDeleteDespite our rather prickly exchanges of views this evening, something tells me that we probably have more in common than separates us on the way that blogs should be run.
Healthy debate is what keeps blogs like this - and yours - alive.
I'll stop hiding behind an anonymous label when I can finally work out an online persona that I'm prepared to stick to and take the consequences.
Until then, I'll tip my hat to you for the flack you are prepared to take in your own name.
When I arrive there, I'll give you a call...but I suspect we won't agree on what I have to say...
Fuck me, what a bunch of idiots you attract, Iain.
ReplyDeleteI for one am very glad she's been caught.
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ReplyDeleteGlad she's been caught. Mind you, the thing is, maximum sentence is six months, which we all know means three months, including time in remand. So, she'll be free early in September. Then what?
ReplyDeleteHow faintly amusing that a real life axe murderer, who made himself a relaxing cup of tea after he murdered an old lady in her own home, where he was a trusted lodger, and tried to joke around about the murder with the police, is spewing out dainty platitudes about a cyber stalker.
ReplyDeleteGood job that Rachel's cyberstalker wasn't Paris Hilton, because she would be out of jail after 3 days...
ReplyDeleteMind you, her defence would be that she didn't know what a computer was for!
Rather like 95% of the House of Lords..
Good to see that the Blog Administrator is back at work...
ReplyDelete...and welcome back to Verity with her succinct summary of one of the contributors to this commentary...
Is this the first case of a so called "cyber stalker" being called to account?
ReplyDeleteWhereas FJL may be deluded and need help, it does call into question the ontological value of cyberspace and its perceived impact upon real people.
In what sense is this real and who really gives a toss? I think cyberspace amounts to no more than a bunch of background artistes in a media focused society that is heavily (as demonstrated today)obsessed with stardom and the hegemony of competing subcultures.
Is it always the desperate efforts of a human being desperate to be validated?
I write this sitting in my underpants, snorting cocaine with one hand and fiddling with a cock ring in the other. Or am I?
Anonymous said...
ReplyDeleteLike the police are going to waste any resources over the occasional post that points out that an axe murderer is, er, an axe murderer.
NO, No, ,No Nonny.
JHL is NOT a murderer.
He was convicted of the manslaughter of a defenceless old lady who had asked him to bring in a bucket of coal.
You are quite lucky that our esteemed host Iain hasn't deleted your post. He does rather favour Jailhouse. I wonder why?
He delights in deleting mine, particularly if I make any play on the word AXE.
You have been warned.
....and it seems as if I have too...
jailhouselawyer said...
jus' passin' thru':
At least I don't hide behind anonymous postings like yourself. Keep it up. We now know that the police do track down cyber-stalkers. Bear it in mind...
j'p't' says....I'm not anonymous, I'm jus' passin' thru'.
Thanks for the heads up re: cyber-stalkers.
Yippeeee, I've been promoted.
I only used to be a 'bowel movement'. Things are looking up.
I will bear your warning in mind jailhouse.
I wouldn't want to end up like Hilda with your Axe firmly planted in my swede.
I wonder if this will get past Iain's Jailhouse protection screen.
coke trope -
ReplyDeleteYou are "The Hitch" and I claim my £5!
Not withstanding past or ongoing issues I might have with Iain, on this occasion he's made his position perfectly clear as regards the unacceptability of certain remarks and that should either be respected or those responsible should take themselves elsewhere.
ReplyDeleteSome of you should read this -
http://timworstall.typepad.com/timworstall/2007/05/owen_barder.html
- and ask yourself whether you'd really like to put Iain at risk of finding himself on the wrong end of the same kind of treatment.
Unity - are you a NuLab councillor? Some petty little low-paid and comical Gilbert & Sullivan functionary who struggles to enforce "rules" - As in, "Nuthin' to do wi' me, mate. 'S more 'un my job's worth...".
ReplyDelete"A source of innocent merriment, of innocent merriment."
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ReplyDeleteAs a presumed maker of 'certain remarks' kindly allow me to respond. I have had a number of postings deleted, again presumably, because of some plays on words. In particular, the word AXE.
ReplyDeleteThis appears to irritate Jailhouse, that is my intention.
He irritates me with his sanctimonious clap-trap. His nauseating self aggrandisement hardly hides his lack of remorse for his outrageous crime.
Sorry, I forgot. Remorse is such a middle class thing isn't it?
Mr. Hitch.
I'm afraid you're way off the mark by gifting any type of moral superiority to Jailhouse.
What moral superiority is there in planting an axe in that old lady's skull?
You are even further off the mark with your assertion that Jailhouse is more intelligent than Bliar.
Blair doesn't go around axeing people in the head, he gets silly buggers like me to do it for him.
Now THAT'S intelligence.
Blair has a wicked, evil intelligence, and anyone who didn't see this the first time he was on TV deserves- if they were adults at the time - to have lived through the Blair destruction years. Blair's not subtle. He came in with a wrecking ball andan insane look in his eye. And no one had the nerve to stop him. Not even the Lords - our refuge of last resort against ill-advised, greedy, over-mighty legislation.
ReplyDeleteNo one stopped him. Everyone, including the editors of the "freest press in the world" (oh, please!) were terrified of Blair's attack dog, Alastair Campbell,whose book is due to sink without trace.
Blair knew exactly how Campbell was contributing to the wreckage of a 1500 year old democracy.
Sorry, Jus' Passin' Through - You have my support.
ReplyDeleteWhat an odd thread ? I bask in my absence from it
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ReplyDeleteHow can you possibly be surprised at the level of comments, when for the most part you're stoking them up yourself and doing very little to discourage such behaviour.
ReplyDeleteVerity:
ReplyDeleteAre you too stupid and ignorant to understand the concept of showing a little respect for someone's expressed wishes?
Just a thought here, Is this the first "high profile" case of many to come and pushed by the MSM? Is this the first sign that McStalin HQ is lining up the net for tighter controls and antiblogging laws?
ReplyDeleteIf McStalin rides to the rescue with a shedload of anti cyberstalking laws that conveniently strangle the blogging world then I would not be surprised!
Hitch
ReplyDeleteObviously JHL is an admirable character.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/crime/article/0,,1949501,00.html
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ReplyDeleteverity said...
ReplyDeleteSorry, Jus' Passin' Through -
If only,please God make her stop posting.
Sorry, the link at 10.03 AM doesn't work.
ReplyDeleteTry
http://prisonersvoice.blogspot.com/search/label/Guardian%20writer%20lives%20to%20write%20another%20day...
Verity, you are my favourite poster.
ReplyDeleteOld Folks Love Blogs 11:08 - I'm not Just Passin' Through. Although sometimes I am Jes' Sayin' is All ...
ReplyDeleteAnonymous 12:08 - Paris Hilton. That was funny!
I don't believe it - an endorsement from Verity...
ReplyDeleteI can now go to bed a happy camper.
Thank you, Verity!
I posted a comment in which I pointed out that verity continually made reference to "jailhouselawyer ".No bad language was used, I merely asked why she repeated the same posting ad nauseam,her post remained and mine was deleted,why Iain ?
ReplyDeleteanonymous 12.08 am said... Thank you, Verity!
ReplyDeleteDon't take much to make you happy then ?
Unity said...
ReplyDeleteVerity:
Are you too stupid and ignorant to understand the concept of showing a little respect for someone's expressed wishes?
Silly question friend.
Anonymous said...
ReplyDeleteVerity, you are my favourite poster.
Is that you verity ?
Anonymous said...
ReplyDeleteSorry, the link at 10.03 AM doesn't work.
Don't worry we are not daft enough to follow a link posted buy "Anonymous said..."for Gods sake, silly fellow.
"Labour is good for old folk said...
ReplyDeleteSorry, the link at 10.03 AM doesn't work.
Don't worry we are not daft enough to follow a link posted buy "Anonymous said..."for Gods sake, silly fellow.
Methinks you are paranoid. I was simply linking to a Jailhouselawyer entry which gives an account of his background.