Thirty Facebook pages have been taken down because prisoners were using them to taunt their victims, Jack Straw, the justice secretary, has revealed.
The minister said the 30 offending pages brought to the attention of Facebook had been removed within 48 hours. Ministers were seeking to identify “better methods” of preventing the “deplorable” abuse of victims via social networking sites, he added.
Straw was speaking after a meeting with Ofcom’s Chris Woolard, Facebook’s European director of policy, Richard Allan, and members of Families United to talk about the issues around prisoners’ access to social networking sites.
He said he was “reassured by the cooperation which we’re receiving from Facebook” as he called today for a longer-term solution “to this very modern version of the old problem of victim harassment”.