A man has been jailed for eight weeks after sending abusive voicemails to Ashton-under-Lyne MP Angela Rayner, which caused her to be scared for the safety of her family and to 'question' her job.
The Tameside MP and Labour deputy leader said she “burst into tears” and was left “scared out of her wits” after being targeted by Stuart Kelly, 53. Westminster Magistrates’ Court heard Kelly linked 41-year-old Ms Rayner’s comments at the Labour Party conference, calling Conservatives “scum”, in September last year to the death of Sir David Amess, 69.
On October 15 last year, the day the veteran Tory MP was stabbed to death at a surgery in his Leigh-on-Sea constituency in Essex by terrorist Ali Harbi Ali, 26, Kelly left three voicemail messages at Ms Rayner’s constituency office.
