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| Two guilty over abusive tweets to Caroline Criado-Perez | |
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| Two people have pleaded guilty to sending "menacing" tweets to feminist campaigner Caroline Criado-Perez. | |
| Isabella Sorley, 23, of Newcastle, and John Nimmo, 25, of South Shields, admitted at Westminster Magistrates' Court sending the messages over a public communications network. | |
| They will be sentenced on 24 January. | |
| Journalist Ms Criado-Perez, 29, from Rutland, received abuse after her campaign for author Jane Austen to appear on the new £10 note succeeded. | |
| Her campaign began after the Bank of England announced in April last year that social reformer Elizabeth Fry would be dropped from new £5 notes in favour of Sir Winston Churchill, leaving no female presence on bank notes. | |
| Sorley and Nimmo sent the tweets in July after the Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, said Jane Austen would replace Charles Darwin on the £10 note. | |
| At the time, Ms Criado-Perez hailed the announcement as "brilliant day for women". | |
| Sorley and Nimmo pleaded guilty to sending by means of a public electronic communications network messages which were menacing in character, contrary to Section 127(1) (A) of the Communications Act 2003. | |
| Sorley was remanded in custody and Nimmo was bailed, both until 24 January. | |
| The Crown Prosecution Service had said earlier that the prosecution of a separate suspect who allegedly sent offensive messages to Labour MP Stella Creasy over the same issue was not in the public interest. |