Complete coincidence if i've read his wife's twitter posts correctly. If I read it right then he was getting a lot of requests for time/money/items from charities and people claiming to be from organisations or doing something for a good cause and he was having trouble working out who was genuine and who wasnt. That's how I read it anyway, probably nothing like that in reality.
Difficult one. Some people in the spotlight bring these things on themselves and deserve (a lot) of what they get. Hassell is not one of those people so he may think it's more trouble than it's worth. I remember a couple of months ago that I posted about Rebecca Adlington getting abuse on different social network sites and a lot of people just seemed to think she should grow a thicker skin.