Sign up to the MySalford newsletter and don't miss a thing happening in and around the city A 'keyboard warrior' from Salford who sent hundreds of 'hate filled' messages to an MP has been jailed.
Tony Eckersley, 52, 'bombarded' Birmingham MP Jess Phillips with more than 300 emails containing threatening messages and racial slurs.
Eckersley called Ms Phillips a 'c***', and a 'treasonous cow', and suggested it would be 'appropriate' for her and other MPs to be victims of a terrorist attack in the House of Commons.
He claimed they should 'suffer the same fate as thousands of British white children in being gang-raped'. Manchester Crown Court heard that Eckersley claimed to be interested in 'the criminal elements within Islam'.
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