Man Jailed For Abusive Tweets To MP Creasy

A man who sent abusive Twitter messages to Labour MP Stella Creasy, has been jailed for 18 weeks.

District Judge Elizabeth Roscoe found internet 'troll' Peter Nunn guilty of sending indecent, obscene or menacing messages.

The City of London Magistrates' Court had earlier heard that Nunn, 33, from Bristol, retweeted "menacing" posts threatening to rape the Walthamstow MP and branding her a witch.

The abuse started after she supported a successful campaign to put the image of Jane Austen on the £10 note.

Prosecutor Alison Morgan said the messages had had a "substantial" effect on Ms Creasy, who felt "increasing concern that individuals were seeking not only to cause her distress".

"But also to cause her real harm which led her to fear for her own safety", Ms Morgan added.

Stella Creasy 'felt people were seeking to cause her real harm'

She said Ms Creasy had felt the need to install a panic button in her home and the incident had altered the way she interacts with people and made her more cautious.

Nunn had claimed he sent the messages to exercise his right to freedom of speech and to "satirise" the issue of online trolling.

During mitigation, his defence lawyer, Helen Jones, told the court he felt great remorse for the stress and anxiety he had caused.

But Judge Roscoe said she had not seen this during his trial when she had found him "evasive".

The judge said she had taken the defendant's good character and no previous convictions into account along with the impact a custodial sentence would have on his long-term partner and their three-year-old daughter.

"However, it has to be an immediate sentence. There is no reason to suspend it," she said.

"I'm not convinced that that would give the message that this is entirely unacceptable."

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