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http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/10/06/woman-accused-directing-online-abuse-at-family-missing-madeleine-mccann-found/

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A woman who used social media to attack the parents of missing British girl Madeleine McCann was found dead in a British hotel Saturday, after police launched an investigation last week into the Internet abuse.

Brenda Leyland, 63, was the focus of a Sky News report after Metro police told the news organization they were looking into death threats and bullying on the Internet.

"Police were called at 1:42 p.m. on Saturday, 4 October, to a report of a body of a woman in a hotel room in Smith Way, Grove Park, Leicester,” a spokesman for Leicestershire Police told Sky.

The body has now been formally identified as Leyland and a coroner is expected to file a report on her cause of death. Police said her death is not being treated as suspicious.