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Death by Twitter　推到死

When Ceylan Hassan died, it seemed to be a simple hit-and-run. She'd been to the shops and was crossing the road outside her house when she was hit by a bus. It wasn't nice but it didn't appear to be anything out of the ordinary. Until her brother came to see us, asking us to read her last few tweets.

Ceylan Hassan 的死亡看起來是典型的肇事逃逸。她出門去買東西的路上，在過馬路時在家門口被公車撞了。這不是好事，但是看不出有特別不尋常之處。直到她哥哥來找我們，讓我們看了她生前最後的推文才看出蹊竅。

Neither me or Sherlock have Twitter accounts (all those accounts are fake) but we did have a nose occasionally. And the brother, Frank, was right. Ceylan's last four 'tweets' were pretty interesting.

我和Sherlock都沒有推特帳號（現在那些聲稱是我們的都是假冒的），但是我們會不時關心一下推特。Ceylan的哥哥Frank說的沒錯，他妹妹生前最後四則推文看起來非常怪異。

"I know he's coming for me"

「我知道他衝著我來。」

"I know he's coming"

「我知道他要來了」

"I know"

「我知道」

"I know"

「我知道」

Frank Hassan told us that Ceylan had seemed distracted in the weeks leading up to her death. He couldn't explain what was wrong with her exactly - even after Sherlock did his usual shouty thing. She'd shut down her Facebook account, deleted all her emails and hired someone to fix a couple of extra locks on the doors to her house. It was pretty obvious that she'd thought someone was after her.

Frank Hassan告訴我們，Ceylan的死似乎和幾週前她被跟蹤的事有關。他不知道確切她到底哪裡不對－－就算Sherlock像平常那樣大吼大叫之後他仍然說不出個所以然。Ceylan關掉了他的臉書帳號，還刪掉了所有電子郵件，甚至還請人在家裡裝了好幾個鎖，非常明顯的，她認為有人跟蹤她。

CCTV showed that Ceylan had deliberately stepped in front of the bus so the police investigation eventually ruled it was suicide. Again, very tragic but as she hadn't physically been pushed or anything there wasn't anything they could do.

閉路電視錄到Ceylan故意在行駛的公車前踱步，所以警方判定這是起自殺案。同樣非常不幸的是，沒有人推她或什麼的，所以警方也只能這樣。

Sherlock was most interested by the fact that she'd closed down her Facebook account. He went through my blog and found someone he believed would know how to uncover her closed account and her deleted emails, just on the basis of how they wrote their comments. A person we knew as theimprobableone. Within half an hour everything Ceylan thought she'd deleted about herself was in Sherlock's inbox.

而Sherlock對於Ceylan為什麼會關掉臉書帳號特別關心。他透過我的blog找到了一位可以幫忙的朋友，就是大家都知道的 theimprobableon ，他幫我們恢復了Ceylan關掉的帳號及救回電子郵件，讓我們知道Ceylan到底寫了什麼。

He discovered everything about her. It turned out she had an ex-boyfriend. A man she'd been out with a few times and had then rejected.

然後Sherlock大概就把她一生都摸清楚了，她有一個前男友，她曾跟他約會過幾次，然後就拒絕了對方。

There didn't seem to be anything in the emails until we checked her spam folder. Can you see what I see?

電子郵件看起來則沒什麼特別的，直到我們在廣告郵件裡看出不對。你看得出來嗎？

郵件資料中紅點部份： 「我來囉～」 「逃不掉的」 「該死的女孩」 「到終點了」

The emails there look like typical spam until you look at the addresses they've come from. And it had been the same on Twitter and Facebook. A constant stream of spam containing hidden threats. It had got inside her head.

這些電子郵件看起來像是普通的廣告郵件，除非你仔細看發信人暱稱。一大堆潛藏著威脅的廣告也出現在她的推特和臉書帳號上，影響了她。

I went with Sherlock to find the ex. He'd gone. Done a runner. Sherlock was mad about it. There was nothing he could do. He always regretted never being able to bring the man to justice right up until the day he died.

我跟Sherlock一起去找她的前男友，一陣追逐之後讓他逃掉了，Sherlock非常生氣。他沒辦法了。他對於沒將此人繩之以法一直相當懊悔，直到他死為止都依然如是。

But, obviously, as everyone reading this blog now knows, all our cases were faked. They weren't real. None of it was real. None of this nonsense is real. It's all just lies. Isn't it?

不過，當然啦，就像這個部落格的讀者們知道的那樣，我們所有的案子都是編的，都不是真的，每一個都是謊話，這些廢話都是假的，對吧？

That's one for you, Sherlock.

這是為你寫的，Sherlock。

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