By John Glenday

Sky News has come under pressure from social media activists to take action against its crime correspondent Martin Brunt, following the death of a Twitter troll he had publicly named and shamed.

The broadcaster ran a piece on Sunday labelling Brenda Leyland as a troll who had run a campaign of online intimidation and abuse against the parents of Madeleine McCann, but who was later found dead in a hotel room in Leicester after the broadcast.

Public outrage at the incident has seen venom directed at Brunt himself with a Facebook group calling for the correspondent to be sacked generating almost 1,400 Read full story ›

Source: The Drum