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Journalist and five-year-old daughter face death threats from far right over coverage of grooming gangs
A NEWSPAPER reporter and her infant daughter have been placed under police protection following dozens of threats of violence from far-right extremists, it was revealed today.
Amy Fenton, chief reporter at The Mail in Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria, faced threats of violence over her coverage of trumped-up grooming allegations in the town.
A 19-year-old local woman was charged with seven counts of attempting to pervert the course of justice after alleging she had been groomed and raped by Asian men.
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