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In December 2017, a 21-year-old British man named Daniel Davey received a six-and-a-half year sentence for having sexually abused a five-year-old boy: Just a little over a month into his sentence, however, Davey died while in custody at HMP (Her Majesty's Prison) Bullingdon, in Oxfordshire, Three months later, the Neon Nettle web site published an article reporting that the cause of Davey's death was that his testicles had been cut off (presumably by other prisoners), and he subsequently bled to death: These gruesome details about the purported manner of Davey's death were fabricated by Neon Nettle and reported nowhere else. In fact, UK government officials announced only that an inquest into Davey's death would be held at a later date: Neon Nettle is a fake news site with a particular focus on reporting made-up and exaggerated clickbait stories about pedophiles. This report about Daniel Davey is a near-duplicate of a previous article from the same site that similarly overlaid genuine news of a prison death with fabricated details attributing the death to a grisly jailhouse killing.
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