Amanda Abbington has said she felt “sick and terrified” after photographs of baseball bats wrapped in barbed wire were sent to her and her former partner Martin Freeman.
The then-couple, who starred in Sherlock together and are parents to two children, took the pictures to the police and the actress said it was a “really horrible time”.
Abbington now plays the mother of a young man who finds fame on reality television in the BBC Three film Make Me Famous and said she has seen the dark side of social media.
She said: “I hope people will realise we have to treat people carefully. Social media can be a great forum, but it can also be a platform from which people bully. “I think there should be a rule to say you have to be listed as your real
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