Death threat received by British MP via Twitter

A British Labour Party MP received a message via micro-blogging website Twitter which threatened the lives of her children and grandchildren. Yvette Cooper, a former Cabinet minister and MP for MP Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford, said she received the message on Tuesday, BBC reported. The comment accused her of sending pro European Union (EU) “propaganda”, adding “Please stop or I will kill your kids and grandkids”. The account from which the message was sent now appears to have been removed, police said. The incident comes amid increased security for MPs following the death of Labour MP Jo Cox last week. Cox died after being shot and stabbed in an attack in Birstall near Leeds on June 16. A 52-year-old man has been charged with her murder. Cox had previously contacted police after receiving “malicious communications” and they had arrested a man in connection with the investigation in March. Police said that the man they had arrested at that time was not the 52-year-old man who was being held in custody in West Yorkshire following his arrest close to the crime scene. “Officers received an allegation of malicious communications from Jo Cox MP, and in March 2016 arrested a man in connection with the investigation,” police said. “The man subsequently accepted a police caution.” Cox, a 41-lawmaker for the opposition Labour Party and a vocal advocate of Britain’s European Union membership, died after she was shot and stabbed repeatedly by a man who witnesses said shouted “Britain first”. Both sides in Britain’s EU referendum suspended campaigning after the attack. IANS with inputs from Reuters