Woman Accused by SKY News of “Trolling McCanns” Found Dead in Hotel Room

A woman doorstepped by SKY News and accused of Twitter “trolling” the parents of Madeline McCann has been found dead in a hotel room. Brenda Leyland, 63, was identified by the news channel as the owner of a Tiwtter account under the handle @sweepyface. The account had been used to post abusive messages about Kate and Gerry McCann. Last week SKY News reporter Martin Burch, accompanied by a camera man, approached Mrs. Leyland in her home village of Burton Overy. In footage shown on the channle on Thursday, the mother-of-two was asked repeatedly why she was “attacking” the couple. Burch then told the woman that she had been reported to police and officers were considering a case. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKBQft83i9A Neighbours told how she had later “fled the village”. Mrs. Leyland’s body was found in a hotel room in Leicestershire on Saturday. A Police spokeswoman said: “Police were called at 1.42pm on Saturday 4 October to reports of a body of a woman in a hotel room in Smith Way, Grove Park. “Officers have attended the scene and a file is being prepared for the coroner. “Identification of the deceased is a matter of the coroner. The death is not being treated as suspicious.”