'Prosecute threats to MPs as terrorism', watchdog urges
People who make online threats to kill or rape politicians should be prosecuted as terrorists, the government’s terror watchdog said on Wednesday as a £31 million security package to protect MPs was announced by the Home Office.
Jonathan Hall KC said that terror laws should be used because such threats were aimed at changing politicians’ votes and affecting democracy, making them “core terrorism business”.
He said the change by deterring people from sending intimidating messages to them.
