John Nimmo
An internet threat-maker faces jail for making threats. Again.
John Nimmo, 28, from South Shields, sent two emails to [Labour MP] Luciana Berger where he told her to “watch your back Jewish scum”. The second message to the 35-year-old MP for Wavertree, who is running to become mayor of Liverpool, also included a picture of a large knife.
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Nimmo was previously jailed in 2014 for eight weeks for sending abusive messages on Twitter to feminist campaigner Caroline Criado-Perez and MP Stella Creasy.
Just banter. Just his opinion. Free speech. If women don’t like it they should shut up get offline.
Along with Isabella Sorley, Nimmo previously pleaded guilty at Westminster magistrates court in 2014 to abusing Criado-Perez and Creasy. The abuse came after Criado-Perez led a campaign using social media for a female figure to appear on a Bank of England note. It included Nimmo telling Criado-Perez to “shut up” and made references to rape, followed by: “I will find you (smiley face)”.
Paul Kennedy, for the defence, had argued for a suspended sentence, saying “he says these things for attention”.
“He does not desire to carry out these threats,” he said.
Women should either laugh merrily at the threats or stay out of public life and off the internet.
He did it for attention, and now he’s getting the attention he deserves–from the police and the courts. The system actually working the way it’s supposed to, for a change!
Who said making a death threat was “free speech”? I though that line was pretty clear…
Lots of people. They say it’s just a joke, it’s just hot air, it’s just ranting.
If it causes someone to fear for their life, harm has been done.