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TROLL FEELING: Steve Rotheram MP says parliamentarians should not be bothered by trolling. Courtesy: Wikipedia
A feminist, who retweeted threatening messages to a London MP, faces jail a court has said.
Peter Nunn, 33, of Bristol, was found guilty of sending messages of a grossly offensive, indecent or menacing character to Stella Creasy MP, who was part of a campaign calling for less men on banknotes.
Recently celebrities have been retweeting offensive messages sent to them on Twitter. Stan Collymore for instance retweeted messages containing the n-word, but faced no prosecution. Caroline Criado-Perez re-posted numerous misandrist tweets, but faced no prosecution either.
Nunn believed the verdict was unjust. “It is a sad day for free speech. I will be appealing,” he said. Liverpool Walton MP Steve Rotheram is a colleague of Stella Creasy. “We all know that parliamentarians are pachyderms, with little or no feeling, so it (trolling) should not bother us,” he said.
Sentencing of Nunn has been adjourned until 29 September 2014.
