Harassment

Today I was searching my @replies on twitter, and found this message:

@imogen89 the streets are a great place to start out living. just dont open your mouth or you'll catch london cancer

I had asked how it was best to go about finding cheap accommodation in London, so the comment didn't seem massively out of place, but then I clicked on their page (http://www.twitter.com/Tesla91) and found the following messages going back to March 4th:

@imogen89 you ugly tart

@imogen89 shut the fuck up you stupid prenentious fatty

@imogen89 last night i dreamt your mouth had been sewn shut so you couldnt talk anymore shit

@imogen89 eat a fucking steak you dirty slut

@imogen89 you ugly ho

@imogen89 because you'er a fatty, right? not because your a prententious fat cow that wants to get into law with a philosophy degree

@imogen89 ffs fatty put on more clothes and never ever wear slim folk attire you fat piece of garbage

@imogen89 why dont you get a new face you ugly ho

@imogen89 ffs you are without doubt the ugliest person i have ever seen in my long long life

@imogen89 how about untill the fat moronic piggy (you) gets cooked

@imogen89 fat moronic pretentious big easy

@imogen89 omg you are ugly, anoying, p[retentious and a prat all balled up into one fat blonde

@imogen89 beats listening to your voice or looking at your face

@imogen89 i guess you have a really ugly face then. You have loose morals at best, slut!

@imogen89 i think you should save up the money used for para and orange to get plastic surgery on your face

@imogen89 how about pissed for having a god awful face

@imogen89 it's three times bell end

@imogen89 someone should smack you round the face for being soo ugly

@imogen89 dont have any of your own please

@imogen89 ugly!

@imogen89 go on a diet fatty

@imogen89 get some plastic surgery then

@imogen89 Fucking Vegetarians

@imogen89 wow you are one ugly looking person

@imogen89 skanky emo ho

@imogen89 god that is a terrible euphamism for your vagina and a baby

@imogen89 well fatty

@imogen89 god you are one fat ugly ho bag

@imogen89 how bout how ugly you are?

@imogen89 Infidel!!!!!!!!!

@imogen89 tubbie

@imogen89 hahahahahahahahahahahaha

imogen should cook on her pretentious fucking ego that is primarily filled with philosophy bull shit and young person arrogance

@imogen89 thank god for that

imogen is a tool

@imogen89 eat real food!!!!!

@imogen89 not a meat fan i assume? clearly dont like men then

@imogen89 Take a chill pill babe

@imogen89 you are better off becoming a single parent...first get laid though or this might not work soo well

@imogen89 your fault for looking like rape material

how is killing tiring if you are not the one doing the killing?

These messages have never been shown in my @replies, despite the fact that I haven't blocked them and they are following me. This is pretty distressing and they seem to know me. Their name (Remy LeBeau) is a character from X-men. The name Tesla91 could refer to a bleach character, a surname, a first name, a rock band, a character in Clive Barker novels or the popular physicist.

These are the details which I can work out from their twitter feed:

-They like Bullet for my Valentine and Paramore.
-They worked or attended a 'convention day' on the 17th october.
-They might live in Guernsey or Norwich and be at the sort of age where they would be attending university.
-The '91' in Tesla91 may refer to the year 1991, the year of their birth?
-They might attend the UEA. They have replied to a twitter account of a girl who lives in Guernsey and attends the UEA.
-I am pretty sure they are male.
-They make t-shirts
-They like comics and sci fi.
-Possibly long dark hair.
-Possibly plays the guitar.
-They eat meat.
-They were disorganised about applying to university, waiting until March to start looking at where they wanted to go. Quite clever though if they go to the UEA.
-They were already following my friend Claire long before they were following me, she attends the UEA.
-I have wronged them in some way.


Update:
I have sent this message to twitter:
"The following Twitter account http://twitter.com/tesla91 has been sending abusive tweets to my accound (@imogen89) for a period of several months, as well as other twitter members. This has been extremely upsetting considering the vulgarity and personal nature of the comments, and it doesn't seem right that someone should be able to get away with this kind of behaviour simply because of anonymity. Considering the distressed that this has caused, I do not believe it is enough for this person just to have their account pulled, and I would like to have them charged with a criminal offense under the Malicious Communications Act 1988. I am based in the UK, and based on analysis of language used the account holder also seems to be in the UK, which makes this a simple harassment case under the following acts:
Malicious Communications Act 1988, s. 1
(1) Any person who sends to another person—
(a) a letter, electronic communication or article of any description which conveys—
(i) a message which is indecent or grossly offensive;
(ii) a threat;
Communications Act 2003: Section 127 covers all forms of public communications, and subsection (1) defines an offence of sending a ‘grossly offensive…obscene, indecent or menacing’ communication.

Here are some examples of this kind of communication sent to me (publicly):
"ffs fatty put on more clothes and never ever wear slim folk attire you fat piece of garbage "
"how about untill the fat moronic piggy (you) gets cooked"
"last night i dreamt your mouth had been sewn shut so you couldnt talk anymore shit"
"i guess you have a really ugly face then. You have loose morals at best, slut"
"your fault for looking like rape material"
"imogen should cook on her pretentious fucking ego that is primarily filled with philosophy bull shit and young person arrogance"
"someone should smack you round the face for being soo ugly"

As you'll see from the person's tweets, these were designed specifically to provoke distress and upset the receipients, and are criminal. I hope you will help me in identifying and shaming this individual, and help keep Twitter safe from malicious and abusive users. The course of action required of course will depend on the privacy policies and the philosophies of Twitter as a company, but I'm sure you'll agree that this sort of behaviour should not be allowed to continue anonymously by this user. Thank you for your time, your assistance in this matter is greatly appreciated and I really hope you can help us stop this individual from future tormenting of site users."