UK teen arrested after Olympic diver Tom Daley receives Twitter death threat (Photo: Toby Melville / Reuters) LONDON — A British teenager was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of making “malicious” remarks, after a death threat to U.K. Olympic medal hopeful Tom Daley appeared on Twitter.  The profanity-strewn tweets — on an account NBC News has chosen not to identify — also included the claim that the athlete had let down his dead father after Daley came fourth in the men’s synchronized 10-meter dive. Read the complete story.
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UK teen arrested after Olympic diver Tom Daley receives Twitter death threat

(Photo: Toby Melville / Reuters)

LONDON — A British teenager was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of making “malicious” remarks, after a death threat to U.K. Olympic medal hopeful Tom Daley appeared on Twitter. 

The profanity-strewn tweets — on an account NBC News has chosen not to identify — also included the claim that the athlete had let down his dead father after Daley came fourth in the men’s synchronized 10-meter dive.

Read the complete story.

Source: nbcnews.to

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    Oh my god they actually arrested the asshole.
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    Update on the Tom Daley twitter story from yesterday.
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