Misogyny Hate Crime Woman Abused Online

A woman who helped launch a police campaign to record misogyny as a hate crime has received hundreds of abusive messages over the internet.

Melanie Jeffs led the research into hate crime in the city which resulted in Nottinghamshire Police becoming the first force in the country to expand its hate crime categories to include misogynistic incidents. The new legislation came into force in May.

The force defines misogyny hate crime as "incidents against women that are motivated by an attitude of a man towards a woman and includes behaviour targeted towards a woman by men simply because they are a woman."

Ms Jeffs, centre manager at Nottingham Women's Centre said she was "stunned" by the volume of offensive tweets and messages posted on Twitter and Facebook.

Speaking about the messages, she said:

"They ranged from the ridiculous to some that were quite aggressive.

"One person said I should get cancer, I had somebody threatening to find me and tie me up and lots of comments about my appearance.

"There is one that I'm having discussions with the police about, but most of them I just brushed off."

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