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A man who sent a threatening and highly offensive email to theConservative MP Louise Mensch has been warned he will be jailed if he gets back in touch withher or other public figures he has targeted. Frank Zimmerman was given a 26-week jail sentence, suspended fortwo years, after telling Mensch she faced a "Sophie's choice" andwould have to pick which of her three children to save and whichwould die. Zimmerman, 60, from Gloucester, was made the subject of arestraining order forbidding him from contacting Mensch and otherwell-known people including the businessman and reality televisionstar Lord Sugar, military top brass and newspaper columnists. The district judge Martin Brown told Zimmerman that the message toMensch merited a custodial sentence but he had decided not to sendhim to prison immediately, partly because of his age and "problems"he suffered. Brown told Zimmerman, who says he has agoraphobia, that he hadcommitted a very serious crime and the comments "went beyond mere mischief". He added: "Thesewere ugly, unpleasant and serious remarks to the complainant byemail. They caused her great concern." The judge said he had decided against banning Zimmerman from usinga computer. "It had been my intention to prohibit him from using acomputer and I accept the human rights angle and I accept theproblems of policing that," he said. Zimmerman targeted Mensch after last summer's riots when the CorbyMP suggested that sites such as Twitter ought to be closed down ifthe police thought it necessary. Mensch was also in the public eyeas a member of the Commons culture, media and sport committee,which questioned Rupert and James Murdoch over phone hacking. Addressing her as the "slut of Twitter", Zimmerman said: "We areAnonymous and we do not like rude cunts like you and your nouveauriche husband Peter Mensch. We are inside your computer, all yourphones everywhere and inside your homes. "So get off Twitter. We see you are still on Twitter. We have senta camera crew to photograph you and your kids and we will post itover the net including Twitter, cuntface. You now have Sophie'sChoice: which kid is to go. One will. Count on it cunt. Have a niceday." Mensch called in the police and arranged security for her family.In a victim impact statement, she said she had taken the threatsseriously. She said she knew the plot of Sophie's Choice, in which a Jewishmother in the second world war has to choose which of her childrenshould die. "I am married to a Jewish man and I believe that thechoice of this book and film was intentional," she said. Zimmerman was charged with an offence of sending by publiccommunication network an offensive, indecent, obscene, menacingmessage or matter. The case against him was proven in his absenceafter he failed to attend court, blaming his agoraphobia anddepression. Others whom he was banned from contacting included Lord Sugar, whomhe had once messaged: "I've been trying to say this to you for sometime, Sugar you're fired", echoing Sugar's catchphrase in TheApprentice. The restraining order also stipulated that Zimmerman should notcontact General Sir Michael Jackson, the former head of the Britisharmy, or David Petraeus, the former US army commander and nowdirector of the CIA. Also on the list were people linked to Mensch, including herhusband, Peter, and the writers and newspaper columnists TerenceBlacker and Jennie Macfie. Zimmerman maintains his innocence, claiming hackers must have sentthe offensive message to Mensch. Kirsty Gordon-Cleaver, defending,said her client was considering an appeal. She said: "He never will contact the people on the restrainingorder and it does not cause him any problems. He does, however,uphold his innocence in respect of this.". We are high quality suppliers, our products such as Document Enclosed Envelope Manufacturer , Kraft Bubble Mailers for oversee buyer. To know more, please visits Courier Envelopes.
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