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Parliament is investigating threats received by a journalist from a House of Commons IP address.
Dan O’Hagan, a sports presenter, tweeted an image showing that threatening emails he’d been sent had came from an address associated with Parliament.
Hello @HouseofCommons @UKParliament can you find out who is sending out far-right threats from your IP address? pic.twitter.com/rorSTwD3FC
— Dan O'Hagan (@danohagan) June 9, 2020
O'Hagan said: "It stuns me that in this day and age, someone would be so unaware of how computers work and so unaware that your IP address is sent out with everything you’re doing, especially something from the House of Commons.
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“I’m not frightened by it, but I’m curious now to see who is behind it.”
A House of Commons spokesperson said: "We are aware of a threatening email received by a television presenter. We take threats of this nature very seriously and are investigating the matter.”
One of the emails he received read: “Hi Dan, I'm working very, very hard to acquire your address.
"You cannot be allowed to belittle, mock and intimidate working class white men, whilst peddling your bourgeoisie, privileged leftism in your highly paid career.
"Football is not for white elites like you, It belongs to working class men of all colours.”
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After receiving the emails, O’Hagan searched the IP address yesterday, with the name used in the email address being “David Clark”.
The same IP address was used to edit the Wikipedia entries for multiple Conservative MPs, including Richard Bacon, Bim Afolami, Steve Double, Nusrat Ghani, Seema Kennedy, Gordon Henderson and Matthew Offord.
There is no suggestion that any of the above MPs are responsible for the emails O’Hagan has received.
