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In February 2018, the body of a man later identified as Marcos Amaral Gourgel was found in the Westminster area of central London. News accounts subsequently reported that the dead man had apparently been twice deported from the UK, once following a conviction on child abuse charges, and again after re-entering the country without documentation: A few months later, the Neon Nettle web site reported, in their typical sensationalist style, that Gourgel was a notorious pedophile who was killed after being previously banned from country twice, and whose body had been dumped on the doorstep of the British Parliament building: Nearly all of this detail was fabricated embellishment on Neon Nettle's part. Although Gourgel's body was found near parliament, it had not been dumped on the doorstep of the British Parliament building. Gourgel was homeless at the time of his death, and he passed away in Westminster Tube station — his remains were not dumped anywhere, nor were they discovered on any doorstep. Moreover, authorities stated that his death was not considered a suspicious one: Neon Nettle is a fake news site with a particular focus on reporting made-up and exaggerated clickbait stories about pedophiles. This report about Marcos Gourgel was a near-duplicate of a previous article from the same site that similarly falsely claimed a dead pedophile had turned up on the doorstep of a building connected with legal authority.
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