Prisoner jailed again for threatening Jess Phillips MP from his cell
A ‘dangerous’ prisoner threatened to eliminate Labour MP Jess Phillips in a letter he sent from his cell.
Rakeem Malik, 54, had beforehand threatened her as perfectly as other MPs and experienced now been sentenced for this.
Ms Philiips claimed the latest letter, which was intercepted before achieving her, threatened to ‘harm and kill’ her.
He is now serving a existence sentence imposed in 1999 immediately after admitting trying to murder a ‘cell-mate’ whom he attempted to strangle with shoelaces at Merseyside’s Ashworth large security healthcare facility.
Malik appeared by movie website link at Birmingham Crown Courtroom today the place he was sentenced for new offences to five years’ imprisonment – with a five-12 months extension to his licence.
Just after the listening to, Ms Phillips – the MP for Birmingham Yardley – said: ‘He’s a dangerous male. I sense resigned to the situation of anyone who will for the relaxation of my existence get threats and probably have people enacted.’
She stated the letters ‘threatening to damage me and kill me’ were being intercepted in advance of achieving her.
Just after Malik was sentenced once more on Monday, Ms Phillips mentioned she felt some ‘comfort’ since the law enforcement ‘responded amazingly well’ and ‘in gentle of attacks in opposition to Associates of Parliament and that an assault on our democracy (is) currently being taken really seriously’.
She said: ‘I am sort of resigned to the thought that this will keep on going on in my existence. I experience much less frightened about this a person simply because I understood he was previously in prison. I can danger regulate that.’
She additional: ‘I don’t really feel this is a guy who is coming out of jail any time soon and so I never sense any certain danger. I come to feel happy that the ideal thing occurred. It is all just tinged with unhappiness all around the truth that persons goal me because I am a female.
‘This is a person who had previously written about Jo Cox in his letters. He had been vehement and particular about the truth that I’m a woman. It just would make you come to feel worn out but you have just received to preserve on heading.’
Malik experienced previously admitted generating a danger to eliminate, two counts of sending letters with threats and breaching a prison behaviour purchase.
His sentence is to run consecutively to one more five-year time period of imprisonment he is by now serving soon after pleading guilty at an earlier listening to to a few counts of making threats to destroy West Lancashire MP Ms Cooper in May 2019.
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