{"id":347016,"date":"2018-02-06T12:32:31","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T11:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/bbc-sacks-radio-presenter-who-made-death-threat-to-tory-mp-over-brexit-rt-uk-news\/"},"modified":"2018-02-06T12:32:31","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T11:32:31","slug":"bbc-sacks-radio-presenter-who-made-death-threat-to-tory-mp-over-brexit-rt-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/bbc-sacks-radio-presenter-who-made-death-threat-to-tory-mp-over-brexit-rt-uk-news\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC sacks radio presenter who made \u2018death threat\u2019 to Tory MP over Brexit \u2014 RT UK News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The BBC has reportedly sacked a radio presenter who took to Twitter to tell Tory MP Zac Goldsmith that a \u201cdeath threat\u201d sent to an 80-year-old Brexit supporting constituent \u201cshould have been addressed to you.\u201d<\/p>\n

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St.John Stephen, presenter of a fortnightly gardening slot on BBC Radio London, claimed he thought the letter telling Goldsmith\u2019s elderly constituent \u201cWe are going to kill you\u201d<\/em> was \u201csome sort of set up,\u201d<\/em> according to right-wing blog Guido Fawkes.<\/p>\n

A BBC spokesperson told the blog \u201cThis was clearly unacceptable\u201d <\/em>and that Stephen will not be appearing on its radio show again.<\/p>\n

Pro-Brexit Goldsmith, the MP for Richmond, had tweeted a picture of the letter allegedly received by his constituent, who voted to remain in the EU.<\/p>\n

The letter read: \u201cIf you attempt to take away part of someone\u2019s identity, there are consequences.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWe have watched have you have [sic] stoked the fires of Brexit and led us to this moment.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cYou can no longer be tolerated. We are coming for you. We are going to kill you.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Goldsmith has reportedly passed the note on to the Metropolitan Police.<\/p>\n

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Via RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The BBC has reportedly sacked a radio presenter who took to Twitter to tell Tory MP Zac Goldsmith that a \u201cdeath threat\u201d sent to an 80-year-old Brexit supporting constituent \u201cshould have been addressed to you.\u201d St.John Stephen, presenter of a fortnightly gardening slot on BBC Radio London, claimed he thought the letter telling Goldsmith\u2019s elderly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":347017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-347016","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}