
A man arrested over claims that he tormented a woman with abusive online messages is a serving police officer. Nicola Brookes, 45, from Brighton, East Sussex, made a complaint of online harassment after receiving abuse on Facebook when she posted a comment supporting former X Factor contestant Frankie Cocozza when he left the show last year. Brookes, a single mother who suffers from Crohn’s disease, said fake Facebook profiles were set up in her name, using her picture, to post explicit comments and that her daughter was also targeted with abuse. Read the full story at the Guardian.