Fake death threat Tory MP wipes herself from the web

Lucy Allan has come under fire this month after she was accused of faking a death threat from a constituent. The Conservative MP posted a message from a user by the name of Rusty on her Facebook which asked her to rethink her stance on Syria airstrikes. While the message was hardly polite, the worst part came at the end with a sign-off that read ‘unless you die’. However, the email’s author denied writing the final line and posted on her Facebook to confront her about the edit.

Since the incident Allen has released a statement admitting that she did add the line ‘unless you die’. However, she insists that this was a threat she had also received that day and she had simply merged the two:

The apology failed to wash with many, including the author of the original email. Adam Watling, who wrote under the Rusty pseudonym, has since called on her to resign.