YOU can be who you want to be on the internet.

In the comfort of your own home, you can be as tough as Chuck Norris, as witty as Spike Milligan and as clever as Stephen Hawking. And nobody will have the faintest idea who you are.

Writing under a pseudonym, a spotty teenager with a penchant for Snicker bars can transform himself into a model who’s just walked off the cover of GQ and no one will know any different.

Over the weekend we reported online the sad death of a 15-year-old boy hit by a bus.

The circumstances of why a teenager was out at 1am are irrelevant right now. None of us can possibly imagine the pain and hurt his family are suffering at this moment.

That’s why we were shocked to read some of the downright abhorrent and nasty comments written on our website in relation to this tragedy.

The comment section of our website is an opportunity for people to have their say, voice their opinions, or in this case, also offer condolences to the family. It is not there for mindless trolls to write abuse in order to get a reaction.

We spent most of the weekend rooting out and deleting all those offensive remarks. It made us sick to the stomach how many people seem to get a cheap thrill from their cruel words.

The model Katie Price is currently trying to create Harvey’s Law, to make online trolling a criminal offence.

This after repeated social media attacks on her disabled son, Harvey.

We support her wholeheartedly and hope the law will root out and punish those keyboard warriors who cause such harm with their thoughtless words.