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Angela Rayner email: Benjamin Iliffe gets suspended sentence after he admitted sending threatening message to Labour deputy leader

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A man has been given a suspended sentence after he admitted sending a threatening email to Angela Rayner in which he told Labour's deputy leader to "watch your back and your kids".

Benjamin Iliffe, from Cambridgeshire, was sentenced at Huntingdon Magistrates' Court to 15 weeks in prison suspended for 18 months.

The 36-year-old sent the message from his personal account on 16 October and was arrested on Wednesday, the court heard.

The email told Ms Rayner to "watch your back and your kids" and added: "Promise you c***.

"There's so many people in this country now, after your poster boy murdered an Englishman who are coming after you now c***.

"You were easy to find btw.

"I already found your personal home address."

Iliffe, who also admitted possessing a quantity of cannabis when he was arrested, appeared by video-link from Thorpe Wood police station in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire.