A persistent online troll who continued to carry out a campaign of abuse against a grieving widow despite a restraining order has been sentenced to 15 months in jail. Katie Bell, 27, had previously received a suspended jail sentence in 2021 for her abusive comments and threats on social media. However, she resumed her malicious behavior just months later.
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During the sentencing at Sheffield Crown Court, Recorder Andrew Smith MBE described Bell as “cowardly” and emphasized the distress she caused to her victims. Bell pleaded guilty to two breaches of a restraining order, breaching a suspended sentence order, and a further charge of malicious communications on Twitter and Instagram. The court heard that she directed abusive comments towards individuals and made inflammatory remarks on the social media pages of news outlets and police forces.
