A TWITTER troll who has posted distasteful tweets about the Hillsborough stadium disaster and murdered children is now living in Chelmsford.
Robert Ambridge, 52, formerly of London Road, Braintree and now of Chelmsford, caused uproar earlier this year with his offensive tweets, aimed mainly at the people of Liverpool but have also included attacks on Islam and disabled people.
The self-confessed troll, who tweets from the @oldholbornlolz feed, appeared on a Channel 4 documentary earlier this year about the online craze and believes his comments should be protected under freedom of speech.
The Liverpool-based Protectors of the Justice for the 96 have said they have complained to the police, both in Merseyside and Essex, about the troll's tweets about the Hillsborough disaster, but earlier in the year he was cleared of all charges by the CPS.
Peter Hodgson, from Kirby, was a childhood friend of James Bulger's mother, Denise Fergus, and member of the Protectors of the Justice for the 96 who was targeted by Old Holborn.
"It's disgusting what he is doing and he needs to be stopped as soon as possible," said Mr Hodgson.
"He found out about my six year-old daughter's death and told me to put my Wendy house on eBay – it was vile and sickening, people don't deserve to be treated like this."
Until April this year, Old Holborn, as he was known online, was able to post online anonymously.
That was until the group from Liverpool, incensed at his tweets, published his name, picture, home address and workplace online.
The father-of-six was then the subject of a series of death threats – as were his colleagues at Alchemy Recruitment in Braintree.
A spokesman for the Protectors of the Justice for the 96, who have monitored the abuse, said "it's high time the press highlighted the real Robert Ambridge".
Old Holborn was cleared last October by the CPS as they said there was no case to answer, and he said on his blog at the time: "This is a battle that needed to be had and I'm glad that I tested the new Social Media Free Speech guidelines to destruction. I make no disguise of my wish to live in a society where I may speak freely."
Asked for a comment, Mr Ambridge declined.
