The police has confirmed receiving a report of a tweet that threatened to “kill” an MP, but said the message did not meet the criminal threshold.
The message was allegedly posted on Twitter under an image of Scottish National Party (SNP) MP Joanna Cherry following a heated parliamentary debate on whether to define “sex” as biological sex in law.
According to a screenshot shared by Cherry, the message reads, “I’d kill her with my bare hands if I ever saw her irl [in real life].”
The account that allegedly posted the message no longer exists.
The MP told The National on Tuesday that the tweet had been “reported to the appropriate parliamentary authorities and the police.”…