Twitter Campaign MP Sent Knife Threat Picture

A female MP previously threatened with rape on Twitter has now been sent an image of a masked man brandishing a knife.

A message accompanying the image sent to Labour's Stella Creasy read: "I'm gonna be the first thing u see when you wake up ...".

Ms Creasy, who is leading a campaign against the "trolling" of high-profile women retweeted the threat as an example of the kind of abuse being posted online and replied "carry on and 4 U will be the police".

The post - which appears to show the abuser dressed as serial killer Michael Myers from the Halloween horror movies - has been passed to the police and the user suspended from Twitter, which has vowed to make reporting abuse easier.

The picture emerged as television classicist Mary Beard revealed she had contacted police after receiving a message about a bomb outside her home.

The Cambridge University professor, who has faced a series of insults from users, called for a distinction to be made between mere abuse and proper threats.

Stella Creasy (2nd right) at the launch of the Jane Austen £10 note

"I've had lots of abuse, but only recently have I had these things actually threatening violence, rape and death," she told BBC Breakfast.

"I think we've got to be quite careful about drawing a distinction between those things because abuse is very nasty, it's sexist, it's misogynist but I think in some ways you can cope with that by naming and shaming.

"I think you have to be absolutely clear that these threats that have been coming to me and to other women ... these are criminal threats. They are threats of violence and death and all you can do is take them to the police.

"There is no two ways about it, threatening to kill someone is a crime and that's what I and other people have done and I hope other women who get these threats will do the same."

Ms Creasy is leading a "Take Back Twitter" campaign after becoming a target last week because of her support for Caroline Criado-Perez, who received rape threats following her calls for Jane Austen to be the face on the £10 bank note.

Professor Mary Beard received a bomb threat

Two arrests have been made in relation to rape threats against the two women.

Guardian columnist Hadley Freeman, Independent columnist Grace Dent and Europe editor of Time magazine Catherine Mayer separately received tweets saying they would be the targets of bomb attacks.

The same message was also sent to a number of other women, including Sara Lang, a social media manager at US campaign group AARP.

Police later said they were now investigating eight claims of harassment, malicious communication or bomb threats.

Twitter UK general manager Tony Wang posted a series of tweets on Sunday saying abuse was "simply not acceptable".

His messages came after the website clarified its rules on abusive behaviour and put extra staff in place to handle reports of abuse.

Ms Creasy, talking to Sky News at the weekend, called on Twitter to work with the police to identify particular accounts and users under attack and act more quickly to protect them.

She said: "There's been a lot of talk, a lot of concern, that somehow, if you started to deal with abuse on Twitter you'd shut Twitter down. I simply don't believe that.

"I trust in the wisdom of people who use Twitter, but what I want to do is make sure it's free from fear."

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