Higgins: ‘I was told I would be hatcheted in the face’

Labour senator and European parliament candidate Lorraine Higgins has said she received death threats in the election campaign.

The lawyer also said that she had been shocked by the level of abuse she received in recent weeks as she campaigned to win a seat in North-West-Midlands for Labour.

She said she had reported to gardaí a death threat in which a man threatened to hack her to death and used very abusive language in a posting on her Facebook page.