{"id":27863,"date":"2022-11-29T17:12:48","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T17:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=27863"},"modified":"2022-11-29T17:12:51","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T17:12:51","slug":"threats-against-meghan-markle-are-disgusting-and-quite-real-police-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/11\/29\/threats-against-meghan-markle-are-disgusting-and-quite-real-police-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Threats against Meghan Markle are &#8220;disgusting&#8221; and &#8220;quite real,&#8221; &#8211; Police chief"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Threats made against Meghan Markle have been \u201cdisgusting\u201d and \u201cvery real\u201d, according to a top police boss. The former Head of Counter Terrorism revealed that people have been prosecuted for their threats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Neil Basu, who is today leaving the Metropolitan Police after 30 years, said anyone one receiving such messages would \u201cfeel under threat all of the time\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Asked by Channel 4 News if there were many credible threats against the Duchess of Sussex during his service, he replied: \u201cAbsolutely, and if you&#8217;d seen the stuff that was written and you were receiving it\u2026 the kind of rhetoric that\u2019s online, if you don\u2019t know what I know, you would feel under threat all of the time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Assistant Commissioner described these threats as \u201cdisgusting\u201d and \u201cvery real\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He also told the broadcaster a team was put together to investigate threats made to the Duchess during his time with the Met.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.images.express.co.uk\/img\/dynamic\/106\/590x\/Threats-against-Meghan-Markle-disgusting-and-very-real-says-police-boss-1703147.jpg?r=1669741652201\" alt=\"meghan\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Threats against Meghan Markle \u2018disgusting\u2019 and \u2018very real\u2019, says police boss. (Image: Getty)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Asked if there was a genuine threat to Meghan\u2019s life on more than one occasion, Mr Basu said: \u201cAbsolutely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe had teams investigating it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cPeople have been prosecuted for those threats.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr Basu also talked to Channel 4 News about his personal experience of racism and said he was proud to be \u201cwoke\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Threats made against Meghan Markle have been \u201cdisgusting\u201d and \u201cvery real\u201d, according to a top police boss. The former Head of Counter Terrorism revealed that people have been prosecuted for their threats. Neil Basu, who is today leaving the Metropolitan Police after 30 years, said anyone one receiving such messages would \u201cfeel under threat all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":27864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[4321,5487,1291,746,70,2812,4317,8766,11973,6332,421,504,9151,594],"class_list":["post-27863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-broadcaster","tag-counter-terrorism","tag-duchess-of-sussex","tag-feel","tag-meghan","tag-meghan-markle","tag-metropolitan","tag-neil-basu","tag-one","tag-online","tag-police","tag-racism","tag-terrorism","tag-who"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}