Police probe Grant death threats

ANTI-SEMITIC death threats have been sent to Chelsea boss Avram Grant in a package containing a mysterious powder, police said yesterday.

The club’s training ground at Cobham, Surrey, was sealed off after a member of staff opened the package yesterday. A note addressed to Grant claimed the powder was lethal.

A police source confirmed that the note to Grant, 52, included the words: “You are a back-stabbing Jewish b******. When you open this letter you will die a very slow and painful death.”

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