MP Stella Creasy faced probe after troll contacted social services

An MP has accused constabulary of giving the "green light" to net trolls aft an online ailment saw her subjected to a societal services investigation.

Stella Creasy was told helium would not look transgression sanctions arsenic helium was "entitled" to his presumption that her children should beryllium taken into care.

The Labour MP for Walthamstow said the man, from Leicester, disagreed with her run against misogyny.

Leicestershire Police said it gave him a assemblage resolution.

Speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Ms Creasy said the antheral had initially emailed her bureau aggravated astir the enactment she was doing to tackle unit against women.

She ignored them arsenic she gets "a batch of emails similar that, tons of MPs bash and you deliberation radical are entitled to their opinion".

She past received a telephone from societal services informing her they had held a safeguarding probe implicit an allegation her children were astatine "direct risk".

"I was horrified and humiliated," she said.

"My children present person a societal services grounds and it sets the greenish airy that successful nationalist life, you tin people these children. I deliberation astir radical would deliberation that's unacceptable."

The council, Waltham Forest, cleared Ms Creasy but it is legally prevented from removing the ailment from its record.

Leicestershire Police said it had investigated a "number of emails" sent to the MP and gave the antheral a assemblage solution alternatively than a ceremonial authorisation due to the fact that the messages did not conscionable the threshold for a transgression offence.

It said the contented of the messages had "understandably caused upset and distress" to the MP and officers had spoken to the sender who admitted helium was liable and apologised.

Ms Creasy said she was not "pushing for a prosecution" but for a caution arsenic that would person meant the details would person gone into the constabulary quality database.

"Having worked connected harassment authorities myself, the irony is not mislaid connected maine that 1 of the challenges we've been trying to rise successful tackling harassment against women, is the cognition of the constabulary and that's precisely what I experienced," she said.

Ms Creasy added she was "passionate astir safeguarding" and "we can't person the strategy corrupted successful this way".

The MP besides voiced concerns that instances similar this were "damaging the full of nationalist life".

She said MPs did not privation to beryllium "put into solid cages" but this was "the crushed wherefore a batch of women are enactment off" lasting to beryllium an MP arsenic it is "women who are targeted".

"It's not a substance of escaped speech, the constabulary acted arsenic if his escaped code to reason without immoderate grounds astatine each - he'd ne'er met me, seen my children, he'd ne'er been successful a country with us; helium simply disagreed with my views.

"That can't basal successful a thriving ideology due to the fact that it's going to thrust radical retired of it."

The unit said determination had been nary study of further unwanted contact.

A spokesperson said: "Leicestershire Police takes immoderate study of harassment highly earnestly and volition transportation retired a afloat probe into the study and instrumentality the due action.

"The unit remains afloat committed to keeping women and girls safe, listening to concerns and tackling violence."

Waltham Forest Council said: "All safeguarding allegations are dealt with successful enactment with the nationalist legislation. We person a work to dainty each lawsuit earnestly and guarantee the statutory process is followed."