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Facebook blocks efforts to pull ‘traumatising’ photographs of murderer from victim’s profile

on Oct 28, 2015 | 0 comments

By John Glenday

Facebook is steadfastly refusing to pull a number of ‘traumatising’ photographs of a murderer from his victims own profile, despite repeated requests to do so from her distressed family, after insisting that the profile had been ‘memorialised’.

Hollie Gazzard was murdered by ex-boyfriend Asher Maslin in February of last year but nine photographs of the pair together remained on Gazzrd’s page at the time of her death – whereupon the profile has been frozen.

Defending this stance a Facebook spokesperson said: “People have told us that they would like to leave a legacy on Facebook. We memorialise accounts to provide a place Read full story ›

Source: The Drum