Dom Joly, the star of Trigger Happy TV, has filed a complaint with the police against an internet troll, who harassed him and his family by posting offensive comments about his children via Twitter.

The British comedian complained an anonymous Twitter user, calling him @deathtojolykids, posted a number of offensive messages, including the one that hoped that his kids got cancer.

Apart from filing complaint with the local police, Joly got the Twitter account suspended.

Dom Joly is not the only victim of internet trolling, which can be described as a practice of sending mocking and outrageous messages on tribute or In Memoriam websites about the recently departed.

Recently, a 25-year old internet troll, Sean Duffy, was sent to jail for 18 weeks after he pleaded guilty to two counts of sending offensive messages, including sick messages on tribute pages for two girls who had committed suicide.

However, experts believe that Malicious Communications Act 1988 has become outdated, and thus incapable of tacking the problem. They believe that the Act should be amended to allow the courts to pass on harsher sentences to internet trolls.