Sam Callahan"s friend Chloe Allan bombarded with death threats on Twitter

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A schoolgirl has spoken of how she has been bombarded with death threats for the last 18 months over her friendship with an X Factor star.

Chloe Allan, 15, began messaging singer Sam Callahan before he appeared on the show last year, and has attended a number of his gigs since.

But she has since been sent thousands of hateful messages from online trolls.

Chloe Allan, 15, began messaging singer Sam Callahan before he appeared on X Factor last year, and has attended a number of his gigs since

Chloe has been sent thousands of hateful messages from online trolls since she started messaging Sam Callahan

Her mother Julie, 40, has vowed to do ‘whatever it takes’ to track down and unmask the trolls who she claims have sent her daughter messages everyday for the last year-and-a-half.

Chloe, from Aberdeenshire, said: ‘I am upset and scared all the time. It all started totally out of the blue.

‘But it has been getting worse. We keep blocking the accounts but whoever it is just keeps setting them up again.

‘They say things like we know when you are coming to Glasgow. We know what train you are getting. We are going to be there and will kill you when you arrive.’

Chloe started messaging the singer on Twitter when she saw him performing with another band District3.

He was voted off X-Factor last year and Chloe – who hopes to go into entertainment PR – helped him get gigs and radio interviews in Scotland.

Chloe’s mother Julie, 40, has vowed to do ‘whatever it takes’ to track down and unmask the trolls who she claims have sent her daughter messages everyday for the last year-and-a-half

Mother Julie has tried to get Twitter bosses to stop the daily death threats, but claims they ‘don’t consider it an emergency’ and has vowed to take them to court.

She said: ‘Chloe has been receiving these awful messages, death threats, every night for a year-and-a-half.

Chloe’s mother Julie has tried to get Twitter bosses to stop the daily death threats

‘Chloe will block the abusive account but then another one is made the same day.

‘It’s unbelievable that Twitter can’t help because they don’t consider it an emergency.

‘It’s absolutely ludicrous. Twitter need to start taking some responsibility for this.

‘Some of these messages that are coming through to Chloe say “I’m untouchable, I can’t get caught”.

‘I’m willing to battle this no matter how much it takes, no matter how long it takes.

‘This person will be caught, I will make sure of it – even if that takes getting my solicitor to get a court order for Twitter to reveal their name.

‘It’s just a sad day when a parent has to go that far to protect her daughter.

‘They have been posting stuff about my house and how they’re going to come over so for Twitter to say that’s not an emergency is a kick in the teeth.’

Julie does not want to completely take Chloe off social networking because she says it is a necessity for connecting with her friends.

A police spokesman said investigations were ongoing.

Twitter has said the company could not discuss individual accounts for ‘privacy and security reasons’.

It said it has established processes in place for working with law enforcement and makes information and advice available for users who feel they are the target of online abuse.

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Shell1,

Sunderland,

45 minutes ago

I agree that she shouldn’t NEED to delete her account and that it’s the bullies who should be punished but unfortunately the bullies are getting away with it in this instance. if it was my daughter who was receiving constant messages like this her account would have been deleted long ago. Twitter IS NOT a necessity, and if you think your child is in danger you get them as far away from that danger as possible. if twitter isn’t doing anything to keep their users safe (and I think it is shocking that they can’t do anything about the vile bullies here) it’s YOUR job as a parent to do so. Your child’s safety is more important than a social networking site, get your priorities right.

hadenough,

Exeter, United Kingdom,

1 hour ago

All social media sites should be held responsible for these vile idiot’s and must do more to get them shut down and prosecuted

Rick,

Lincoln, United Kingdom,

1 hour ago

surely the police can get the ip address where the stuff is being sent, and when the police do get them i hope they print his or her picture

Mofu,

Brixton Market, United Kingdom,

2 hours ago

Some girls take jealousy to the next level.

gooloomui,

Auckland, New Zealand,

3 hours ago

Closing your twitter account doesn’t mean giving into bullies. It means giving yourself some peace and quiet and to avoid self harm that can derive from this.

someone,

somewhere, United Kingdom,

4 hours ago

It’s horribly unfair that people are suggesting she deletes her twitter because of this. Yeah it’s not a necessity but obviously she enjoys using it and it’s be really unfair for her to be pushed off because that’s exactly what the bullies want and the cycle will grow and continue with other innocent girls like her. It’s like she’s being punished and the perpetrators are getting away with it. She can block the users but if they are pathetic enough to continue making new accounts then their ip adresses should be tracked and the police should have a little talk/phone call with the trolls (who are probably young kids themselves) or the parents. It’d be quick, easy and they’d probably be way too scared to ever think of doing anything like this again.

pendragon25,

Christchurch, United Kingdom,

4 hours ago

So is is Sam or Chloe who hopes to go into entertainment PR?

BillySastard,

Essex, United Kingdom,

4 hours ago

How to stop internet trolls…

Step 1: Shut Laptop

Step 2: There is no step 2.

Ash of Geelong,

Geelong, Australia,

7 hours ago

And what’s a troll ?

yanto,

Caerphilly,

7 hours ago

What kind of sick people are these “trolls” how can they get such a kick by saying such horrible things?? Baffles me to be honest.

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Sam Callahan"s friend Chloe Allan bombarded with death threats on Twitter