Inbetweeners actress Emily Atack sent Twitter death threats

 
Emily Atack attends The Sweeney - UK Film Premiere at Vue Leicester Square on September 3, 2012 in London, England.
15 November 2012
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Police are investigating after a Twitter user sent death threats to an actress from the TV show Inbetweeners.

Emily Atack, who plays Charlotte Hinchcliffe in the E4 show, contacted police after receiving a number of threatening tweets from a user calling themself Jeff Jones.

A message from Twitter account @jeffjon56599388 said: "Emily its time 4 u to leave this world, ur last hours wnt be pleasant, it will acheive the objective."

Another said: "u sound happy!? im glad!!! visit yr family now...tell them goodbye! it'll be yr last chance to do so!!!!!!"

The 22-year-old actress, who was born in Luton, contacted Bedfordshire Police and urged her followers to do the same.

From her account EmAtack, she tweeted: "Everyone report @jeffjon56599388 ^https://twitter.com/jeffjon56599388@ never read/seen anything so vicious towards me in my whole life."

Atack, who has also appeared on ITV's Dancing On Ice, then replied to her abuser saying, "Prison for you", and told fans, "Hi all, thanks for your nice tweets! Police are on the case. X"

A Bedfordshire Police spokeswoman said: "I can confirm that we received a complaint reporting malicious communications and our investigations are ongoing."

Miss Atack briefly dated One Direction star Harry Styles earlier this year. But the two split up shortly afterwards.

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