Troll Peter Nunn guilty of MP Stella Creasy rape tweets

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Troll Peter Nunn guilty of MP Stella Creasy rape tweets

A man has been found guilty of bombarding a Labour MP with abusive messages on Twitter after she supported a feminist campaign.

Peter Nunn, 33, retweeted messages threatening to sexually assault Walthamstow MP Stella Creasy.

The court heard he sent the posts after the Bank of England said Jane Austen would feature on the new £10 note.

Mr Nunn, from Bristol, had denied the charges, claiming he was "satirising" the Twitter backlash to the campaign.

District Judge Elizabeth Roscoe found him guilty of sending indecent, obscene or menacing messages at a hearing at the City of London Magistrates' Court.

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