Police Officer Arrested for Facebook Trolling

A man arrested over claims that he tormented a mother with abusive online messages is a serving police officer.

Nicola Brookes, 45, from Brighton, East Sussex, made a complaint of online harassment after receiving abuse on Facebook when she posted a comment supporting former X Factor contestant Frankie Cocozza when he left the show last year.

Ms Brookes, a single mother who suffers from Crohn's disease, said fake Facebook profiles were set up in her name using her picture to post explicit comments and that her daughter was also targeted with abuse.

Frustrated at what she considered to be a lack of action by Sussex police to help track the perpetrators, she took her case to the high court in London where an order was granted compelling Facebook to reveal the IP addresses of the people who had abused her, and other information.

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