Senator Lorraine Higgins to report ‘vile’ email and death threat to gardaí

A string of vile abuse including a threat to fill her “rat’s mouth with lead” and “blow her big fucking jew nose off” will form the basis of a complaint to gardaí this morning by Labour senator Lorraine Higgins who has again been targeted by online trolls.

Ms Higgins told the Irish Examiner last night she was “shocked and perturbed” by the latest vitriol, the third online death threat made against her this year.

“Last May I was told I would be hatcheted in the face and in January I was told I would have my head ripped off ‘and shoved up my hole’. But I hadn’t received anything in the past few months and thought the threats had gone away. I opened the latest email yesterday and it included a video of a sniper. I intend going to the gardaí this morning and I will also be raising the issue in the Seanad,” the Galway senator said.