Virtual rage and a pickaxe handle
A man has been jailed for Britain’s first web rage attack. Paul
Gibbons, 47, was yesterday imprisoned for two and a half years for the
unlawful wounding of a fellow internet user after an online quarrel
over Islam.
Gibbons, unemployed and from Southwark in south London,
first encountered John Jones, 43, while in a Yahoo chatroom discussing
the religion. The pair locked horns after Mr Jones was accused of
spreading rumours that his opponent was “interfering with children”.
After a further volley of verbal sparring, Gibbons was challenged to an
encounter and became so enraged he drove more than 70 miles to
Clacton-on-Sea in Essex, where he attacked Mr Jones with a pickaxe
handle
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