A girl who posted offensive comments in response to a man’s Facebook rant about dead soldiers, has been sentenced by a court and told she can’t hide behind the “virtual world” of the internet.

Amy Wilby, 20, admitting posting grossly offensive messages on the social networking site, when she appeared at Kirklees Magistrates’ Court in Huddersfield. Her comments were made in response to Azhar Ahmed’s rant that “all soldiers should die and go to hell”, made two days after the deaths of six British soldiers in Afghanistan.

Wilby’s comments are too extreme to print in full in a family newspaper. But they saw her slapped with a community order after District Judge Marie Mallon told her that she could not hide behind a “virtual world” when airing her views.

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Yes, EDL leader Stephen Lennon has announced on Twitter that he has quit the British Freedom party. According to the BFP, “Tommy has recognised that his heart and strengths lie within the Street Protest Movements”.

It is difficult to understand this decision, what with cousin Kev being on the point of getting elected Police and Crime Commissioner for Bedfordshire on the BFP ticket. Still, the EDL itself is about to recruit another 7 million members, so perhaps Stephen felt he would have his work cut out dealing with that.

Update:  See “English Defence League ‘to become political party and stand candidates in European elections’, says ‘Tommy Robinson'”, Independent, 11 October 2012