London, February 12: Britain has secured the removal of 30 Facebook pages used by prisoners after reports that they were being used to taunt victims, Justice Secretary Jack Straw said on Thursday.
Straw told the BBC that he approached the social networking site three weeks ago to address the issue and asked that the pages be removed within 48 hours.
“We’ve made requests for the removal of 30 sites and they’ve responded to do that positively, with no single refusal, within 48 hours, so we just want to push this forward,” he told the broadcaster.
Straw was talking after meeting families who claimed their loved ones’ killers were taunting them via the internet.
A man who murdered a 16-year-old boy in London reportedly wrote on Facebook that he was “down but not out” and added that he wanted a remote control so he could “mute or delete people when I need to”.
—Agencies