A woman doorstepped by SKY News and accused of Twitter “trolling” the parents of Madeline McCann has been found dead in a hotel room.
Brenda Leyland, 63, was identified by the news channel as the owner of a Tiwtter account under the handle @sweepyface. The account had been used to post abusive messages about Kate and Gerry McCann.
Last week SKY News reporter Martin Burch, accompanied by a camera man, approached Mrs. Leyland in her home village of Burton Overy. In footage shown on the channle on Thursday, the mother-of-two was asked repeatedly why she was “attacking” the couple.
Burch then told the woman that she had been reported to police and officers were considering a case.
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Neighbours told how she had later “fled the village”.
Mrs. Leyland’s body was found in a hotel room in Leicestershire on Saturday.
A Police spokeswoman said: “Police were called at 1.42pm on Saturday 4 October to reports of a body of a woman in a hotel room in Smith Way, Grove Park.
“Officers have attended the scene and a file is being prepared for the coroner.
“Identification of the deceased is a matter of the coroner. The death is not being treated as suspicious.”
