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Caroline Criado-Perez deactivates Twitter account following more rape threats

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By Ishbel Macleod, PR and social media consultant

September 6, 2013 | 1 min read

Caroline Criado-Perez, a feminist campaigner, has today deactivated her Twitter account after receiving another set of tweets threatening to rape and kill her.The campaigner also blamed the move on the police losing evidence, saying: "It's just appalling. I got an email saying 'why don't you go through what you've had' from three users with certain handles. It just shows such insensitivity to someone who's been through so much, I can't believe it. I've spent the afternoon crying just from the sheer awfulness of it."They wanted me to go through all the tweets again because of their incompetence. Every time I have to go through it it's reliving it all over again."The Guardian reports that Scotland Yard has denied claims of losing the evidence from Twitter.

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