MP Anna Soubry contacts police after receiving 'Jo Cox death threat'

Anna Soubry received the apparent death threat on Twitter
Patrick Grafton-Green2 December 2016
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Anna Soubry has contacted police after she received a threat via social media which apparently called for her to be murdered in the same way as Jo Cox.

The Conservative MP, who has been an outspoken Remain supporter, shared it with her 31,000 followers as she branded the person responsible “a sad cowardly troll”.

She said she had reported the message to police.

The user had said: "Someone Jo Cox Anna Sourby please", as they misspelt the MP's name.

Later, Ms Soubry posted a screenshot of the post, and said: "This is what has happened to our politics.

"Tolerance & free speech must prevail."

The account responsible has since been deleted.

Before it was sent the MP for Broxtowe in Nottinghamshire congratulated the Lib Dems on their "sensational" Richmond Park by-election result, saying politicians ignoring Remainers would do so "at their peril".

This comes a week after Jo Cox's murderer, 43-year-old Thomas Mair, was jailed for life for shooting and stabbing the Labour MP for Batley and Spen outside her constituency office in Birstall, West Yorkshire, in June.

A spokesman for Nottinghamshire Police said: "We have received reports of threats made to an individual.

"Nottinghamshire Police takes reports of this nature very seriously and an investigation is under way."

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