A Bristol-based Twitter troll who bombarded a prominent female Labour MP with sexist and threatening abuse has been jailed for 18 weeks.
Delivery driver Peter Nunn, 33, was today (Monday 29 September) jailed for retweeting “menacing” posts threatening to rape Stella Creasy, Labour MP for Walthamstow.
The prosecution branded Nunn’s tweets as a “campaign of hatred” after Nunn started abusing the MP last July after she backed a successful bid to get Jane Austen on the British £10 banknote – a campaign started by feminist Caroline Criado-Perez who received similar abuse.
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Source: The Drum
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