Teenager jailed for trolling footballer Andy Woodward about abuse

Lewis Hawkins, 18, and his father, David Riches, sentenced to 12 months each after Twitter messages that left abuse survivor in tears

Two people are beginning 12-month prison sentences after a fake Twitter account, purporting to be that of a paedophile, was set up to "troll" Andy Woodward after he became the first former footballer to waive his anonymity and leave the sport facing a sexual abuse scandal involving hundreds of other victims.

Woodward, the former Crewe Alexandra, Bury and Sheffield United player whose case led to the Football Association commissioning an independent inquiry, was targeted by a bogus account using a photograph of the man who abused him in the 1980s and calling itself "The Nonce".