Charlotte Church calls police over Twitter abuse for calling Nigel Farage a 'piece of s***'

Abuse: Charlotte Church
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Tom Marshall5 July 2016

Charlotte Church says she is going to the police after facing a rash of “horrifying” threats and sexist abuse for branding Ukip leader Nigel Farage a “piece of s***”.

The Welsh singer provoked a backlash from Ukip supporters with a foul-mouthed response to Mr Farage’s statement that he was resigning to get his “life back”.

In a tweet shared tens of thousands of times, she wrote: “I want my f****** European Union back you piece of s***!!!!!!”

Brexit backers responded with a flood of offensive messages in which they called her stupid and urged her to take her own life.

One wrote: “LEAVE NIGEL ALONE B****! He'll have more supporters than you'll ever have, go kill yourself!”

Another posted: “Dear Charlotte, Drop dead. We took it off you, b****. Signed, old, grey, white and BRITISH!”

And a third wrote: “Charlotte why do you f*** off and die just like your music career did ha ha.”

Writing on her Facebook page on Tuesday, Ms Church said: “Maybe I shouldn't have lowered myself to calling Farage names but the messages of abuse and threats I'm getting on here are horrifying.

“I will be reporting them to the police. I understand many of us have different opinions on this but let’s try and stem this swell of hate.

“I will heed my own advice, but I find Farage very difficult to understand/have any positive feelings for.”

Many of the offensive messages have since been deleted from social media, but the latest post did nothing halt the tide of abuse.

One tweeter wrote this morning: “You deserve every threat you get you spoilt Marxist b****.”

The Standard has contacted Ms Church’s representatives.

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