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   Internet trolls face up to two years in jail under new laws   
   18 October 2014 Last updated at 17:29 ET   
      
   Chris Grayling   
      
   Chris Grayling said he wanted to tackle the 'baying cyber-mob'   
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   Secretary Chris Grayling has said.   
      
   He told the Mail on Sunday quadrupling the current maximum six-month term   
   showed his determination to "take a stand against a baying cyber-mob".   
      
   The plan has been announced days after TV presenter Chloe Madeley suffered   
   online abuse, which Mr Grayling described as "crude and degrading".   
      
   Magistrates could pass serious cases on to crown courts under the new measures.   
      
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   It needs to be accepted that physical threats should not fall under the   
   'freedom of speech' umbrella"   
      
   Chloe Madeley   
   Mr Grayling told the newspaper: "These internet trolls are cowards who are   
   poisoning our national life.   
      
   "No-one would permit such venom in person, so there should be no place for it   
   on social media. That is why we are determined to quadruple the current   
   six-month sentence."   
      
   Miss Madeley received threats after defending her mother Judy Finnigan's   
   comments on a rape committed by footballer Ched Evans, which she said was   
   "non-violent" and did not cause "bodily harm".   
      
   Richard Madeley has said "prosecution awaits" those who sent "sick rape   
   threats" to his daughter.   
      
   Richard and Chloe Madeley   
   Chloe Madeley received threats from internet trolls last week   
   The justice secretary said: "As the terrible case of Chloe Madeley showed last   
   week, people are being abused online in the most crude and degrading fashion.   
      
   "This is a law to combat cruelty - and marks our determination to take a stand   
   against a baying cyber-mob.   
      
   "We must send out a clear message: if you troll you risk being behind bars for   
   two years."   
      
   Miss Madeley told the Mail on Sunday she agreed with the new proposals to   
   update the 10-year-old law.   
      
   'Online terrorism'   
   "It needs to be accepted that physical threats should not fall under the   
   'freedom of speech' umbrella," she said.   
      
   "It should be seen as online terrorism and it should be illegal."   
      
   Those who subject others to sexually offensive, verbally abusive or   
   threatening material online are currently prosecuted in magistrates' courts   
   under the Malicious Communications Act, with a maximum prison sentence of six   
   months.   
      
   More serious cases could go to crown court under the proposals, where the   
   maximum sentence would be extended.   
      
   The law change is to be made as an amendment to the Criminal Justice and   
   Courts Bill going through Parliament.   
      
   The new measures would also give police more time to collect enough evidence   
   to enable successful prosecutions to be brought.   
      
   Mr Grayling had announced earlier this month that the Bill would also have an   
   amendment dealing with so-called "revenge porn", with those posting such   
   images on the internet facing two years in jail.   
      
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