Twitter ignored mum’s plea to remove clip of murdered son’s death — and left it online for two months
TWITTER ignored a mum’s plea to remove a clip of her murdered son’s death and left it online for two months.
Trainee lawyer Sven Badzak, 22, was butchered by a six-strong knife gang.
He was set upon after going out to buy bagels and orange juice in Kilburn, North London, in February.
The next day, distraught mum Jasna found a two- second meme of the attack online captioned: “He’s gone”.
She told cops who asked for the clip’s removal but it stayed put until The Sun intervened.
Jasna, 49, from Maida Hill, North London, said: “Whoever filmed it did nothing to help my son and it was clearly recorded before the police or an ambulance arrived — then put straight on Twitter.
“What kind of firm allows this kind of thing to be passed around?
It should have been stamped on within minutes or hours but stayed viewable for nearly two months on some sick moron’s Twitter feed.
“It is the worst nightmare for any mother to lose her son — but it’s made worse thinking animals like the people who killed him can watch him die over and over again.”
Police confirmed they contacted Twitter over the clip.
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Twitter refused to apologise but said the video had been taken down in line with its “sensitive media policy”.
Two men, 20 and 22, have been charged with murder and are due in court in June.