An MP has received multiple death threats in the last year, leading him to check his family’s cars for booby traps and close his drop-in surgery.
Lee Scott, the Conservative representative for Ilford North, said in parliament he’d had five threats made to his life, including a caller who told him he should be “stoned to death”.
The MP also spoke about abuse he suffered during the 2010 general election, when two people called him a dirty little pig to his face before saying they would kill him.
Speaking about the incident on BBC London, Mr Scott said: “Whenever I'm scared, I've always since I was a child used humour, and I said to them 'shall I put you down as a possible or have you not decided how you're voting'?
