UK teen arrested after Olympic diver Tom Daley receives Twitter death threat

LONDON -- A British teenager was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of making "malicious" remarks, after a death threat to U.K. Olympic medal hopeful Tom Daley appeared on Twitter.

The profanity-strewn tweets -- on an account NBC News has chosen not to identify -- also included the claim that athlete had let down his dead father after Daley came fourth in the men's synchronized 10-meter dive.

Daley rose to fame in the U.K. when he competed at the 2008 Beijing Games at the age of 14.

Shortly afterward Monday's final, a message appeared on the Twitter account saying, “@TomDaley1994 you let your dad down i hope you know that.”

The account was available to only confirmed followers Tuesday, but retweets of some of the messages showed the abuse continued with one talking about drowning Daley in a swimming pool.

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I'm starting to think you should have to pass a test to get a Twitter account, sort of like a driving license...too many stupid people with too much to say.