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Pair jailed over abusive tweets to feminist campaigner
Source: BBC News
A man and a woman have both been jailed for sending abusive messages on Twitter to feminist campaigner feminist Caroline Criado-Perez.
Isabella Sorley, 23, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, who also targeted Stella Creasy, the Labour MP for Walthamstow, was sentenced to 12 weeks in prison.
John Nimmo, 25, of South Shields, was jailed for eight weeks.
They had pleaded guilty at Westminster Magistrates' Court to improper use of a communications network.
Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25886026
They had no call to be abusive : they could've just said "who gives a fuck who's on our £20 notes".
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