Louise Mensch MP claims Anonymous threatened her children

British MP Louise Mensch claims that members of the Anonymous and LulzSec hacktivist groups have threatened her children.

The Conservative MP, who has had a higher profile lately after questioning Rupert Murdoch as part of the investigation into phone hacking and her run-ins with Piers Morgan, posted a series of messages on Twitter revealing that her young children had been threatened:

Had some morons from Anonymous /Lulzsec threaten my children via email. As I’m in the States, be good to have somebody from the UK police advise me where I should forward the email. To those who sent it; get stuffed, losers.

Oh and I’m posting it on Twitter because they threatened me telling me to get off Twitter. Hi kids! ::waves::

I’ve contacted the police via the House…

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