Warrant out for web ‘troll’ who threatened Tory MP

A WARRANT has been issued for the arrest of a 60-year-old man who sent a threatening e-mail to Conservative MP Louise Mensch after he failed to turn up at court.

Internet “troll” Frank Zimmerman was due to be sentenced at Cheltenham Magistrates’ Court in Gloucestershire yesterday.

He had targeted the Corby MP last year, telling her to stop using the social networking site Twitter or face the consequences.

The agoraphobic, who lives in a run-down house in Barnwood, Gloucester, told Mrs Mensch she faced a “Sophie’s choice” – a reference to a film in which a character has to choose whether her son or daughter dies at a Nazi concentration camp.

Zimmerman was found guilty in his absence of sending an offensive, indecent, obscene, menacing message.

He had blamed his agoraphobia and depression for failing to attend the hearing, held at Gloucester Magistrates’ Court in April.