Police arrest man for threatening to shoot Nigel Farage after former MP Ann Widdecombe was killed in ‘targeted attack’
Police have arrested a man who threatened to shoot and kill Nigel Farage.
The man was arrested in London on Tuesday after a post on X warned the Reform England leader: ‘If you win I’ll shoot you in the head.’
It appears that the suspect described himself as a terrorist on social media.
The threat to Mr Farage’s life came just days after former MP and Reform spokeswoman Ann Widdecombe was killed in a ‘targeted attack’.
He announced yesterday that he receives 30 death threats a week. R.eform UK said it had recorded 1,577 threats against Mr Farage since February, including 597 death threats.
The figures include numerous threats from a number of people the party believes are ‘fixated’ on the idea of killing him.
The post about X was made on May 8, but the suspect was only arrested yesterday; almost two months later and six days after Mrs Widdecombe was found dead in the kitchen of her remote Dartmoor bungalow.
According to The Telegraph, his profile includes a picture of a British Asian man.
Metropolitan Police officers told Mr Farage this morning that a man had been arrested on suspicion of sending a threatening communication.
He has since been released on bail.
Police arrest man who threatened to shoot and kill Reform England leader Nigel Farage
Mr Farage told The Telegraph: ‘This is the first time the police have acted proactively on a social media post and I hope they are looking at three or four hundred other similar posts this year alone.’
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