threatening Twitter messages to her was served a court order not to contact her for five years. Grant Karte, 30, has also been given a community payback order, supervised for 15 months, with 160 hours of unpaid work in the community.
Cherry contacted police over a threat on February 1, the day she was dropped from her party’s Commons front bench team in a reshuffle following bitter clashes within the SNP Westminster group.
Karte, 30, previously admitted sending Twitter messages on February 1 that were “grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character” in that he repeatedly threatened Cherry contrary to the Communications Act 2003.Sentencing Karte at Edinburgh Sheriff Court on Friday, Sheriff Alistair Noble said: “You pled.
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