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Paralympian Baroness Grey-Thompson suffers online abuse over train trouble
Baroness Grey-Thompson says she has attracted a stream of anti-disability abuse after she spoke of having to crawl off a train in London.
A newspaper website reporting the story prompted a large number of offensive comments about the peer’s disability.
“There’s a lot of disabled people who wouldn’t be able to deal with it the way I’m able to,” she said.