A MAN has been jailed after sending abusive Twitter messages to journalist Caroline Criado-Perez and Labour MP Stella Creasy following a campaign to put Jane Austen on the £10 note.

The City of London Magistrates' Court heard Peter Nunn, 33, from Bristol, tweeted posts threatening to rape the Walthamstow MP after branding her a witch.

District Judge Elizabeth Roscoe found him guilty of sending indecent, obscene or menacing messages and sentenced him to 18 weeks imprisonment on Monday.

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