‘Sick horrible human’ – Darts star subjected to vile abuse after bursting into tears on stage
The depths trolls will plunge on social media show no bounds as darts star Ricky Evans has shared disgusting abuse he received on Instagram. The Kettering-born star recorded one of his biggest scalps on Friday night at the European Darts Trophy. Evans’ victory over Van Barneveld was an emotional one following the death of his sisterPDC Darts He downed the legendary Raymond van Barneveld 6-4 before bursting into tears on stage. The 34-year-old had just lost his sister Elisha at the start of the month, and dedicated the win to her. However, returning to the oche on Saturday night, he lost 6-1 to fifth seed Dave Chisnall. And after the result he received some horrendous abuse online. Posting a screenshot on Instagram to his 131,000 followers, he shared a screenshot of a message. There a user had called him a ‘fat p****’ and called him as ‘useless as his dead sister’. Writing over the message, he captioned it: “You sick horrible human being. I know I’m fat but the rest wow!!!” At the start of March, Evans revealed the loss of his sister on his Facebook page. “My beautiful little sister Elisha… I love you so much,” he wrote. “I’ll always be your best friend.” Ahead of the win over ‘Barney’ he wrote on Instagram: “All set and ready for tonight’s match. This one’s for you sis.” Evans highlighted the disgusting abuse Evans had also shown how aware he was of how toxic social media can get, defending Van Barneveld after beating him. “Hi all, I’m seeing Raymond get a lot of unnecessary hate on social media, and I just wanted to address this,” Evans wrote on Facebook. “Raymond was the first person to come up to me in Leicester at the recent Pro Tour events to offer his sympathy for my recent bad news, and I love and respect him massively. “We have spoken this morning, and he wished me well for the rest of the tournament. There is no bad blood or issue at all between us, we both just wanted to win last night.” Evans announced his sister had passed away on March 1. He wrote in a Facebook post: “My beautiful little sister Elisha… I love you so much. I’ll always be your best friend.” GettyEvans lost to Robert Owen in the third round of the 2025 PDC World Championship[/caption] Messages of support from the world of darts flooded in as the community rallied behind one of its stars. And his management posted their own condolences. “We send our deepest condolences to Ricky Evans and his family and friends, after the devastating news of the sudden passing of his sister Elisha,” a statement read. Darts star Ross Smith added: “Very sorry to hear this awful news. Sending love to Ricky and his family.”
The depths trolls will plunge on social media show no bounds as darts star Ricky Evans has shared disgusting abuse he received on Instagram.
The Kettering-born star recorded one of his biggest scalps on Friday night at the European Darts Trophy.
He downed the legendary Raymond van Barneveld 6-4 before bursting into tears on stage.
The 34-year-old had just lost his sister Elisha at the start of the month, and dedicated the win to her.
However, returning to the oche on Saturday night, he lost 6-1 to fifth seed Dave Chisnall.
And after the result he received some horrendous abuse online.
Posting a screenshot on Instagram to his 131,000 followers, he shared a screenshot of a message.
There a user had called him a ‘fat p****’ and called him as ‘useless as his dead sister’.
Writing over the message, he captioned it: “You sick horrible human being. I know I’m fat but the rest wow!!!”
At the start of March, Evans revealed the loss of his sister on his Facebook page.
“My beautiful little sister Elisha… I love you so much,” he wrote. “I’ll always be your best friend.”
Ahead of the win over ‘Barney’ he wrote on Instagram: “All set and ready for tonight’s match. This one’s for you sis.”
Evans had also shown how aware he was of how toxic social media can get, defending Van Barneveld after beating him.
“Hi all, I’m seeing Raymond get a lot of unnecessary hate on social media, and I just wanted to address this,” Evans wrote on Facebook.
“Raymond was the first person to come up to me in Leicester at the recent Pro Tour events to offer his sympathy for my recent bad news, and I love and respect him massively.
“We have spoken this morning, and he wished me well for the rest of the tournament. There is no bad blood or issue at all between us, we both just wanted to win last night.”
Evans announced his sister had passed away on March 1.
He wrote in a Facebook post: “My beautiful little sister Elisha… I love you so much. I’ll always be your best friend.”
Messages of support from the world of darts flooded in as the community rallied behind one of its stars.
And his management posted their own condolences.
“We send our deepest condolences to Ricky Evans and his family and friends, after the devastating news of the sudden passing of his sister Elisha,” a statement read.
Darts star Ross Smith added: “Very sorry to hear this awful news. Sending love to Ricky and his family.”
