Why are female MPs terror targets?
What the Rosie Cooper murder plot reveals about the far-right.
An episode of the Beyond Today podcast, hosted by BBC Radio 4, titled "Why are female MPs terror targets?" was published on May 20, 2019 and runs 19 minutes.
May 20, 2019 ·19m · Beyond Today
Summary
On Friday the former BNP poster boy and 23 year-old convicted paedophile Jack Renshaw was sentenced to at least 20 years in prison for plotting to murder the Labour MP Rosie Cooper. Renshaw has been a hero to some racists, misogynists and anti-semites in the North West for a few years. We speak to Robbie Mullen, a former neo-nazi who risked his life to blow the whistle on Renshaw; Ruth Smeeth, the Labour MP who told Cooper about the plot, and the BBC’s Daniel De Simone, who covered the case, to understand why neo-Nazis are radicalising against women.Producer: Lucy Hancock Mixed by Nicolas Raufast Editor: John Shields
Episode Description
On Friday the former BNP poster boy and 23 year-old convicted paedophile Jack Renshaw was sentenced to at least 20 years in prison for plotting to murder the Labour MP Rosie Cooper. Renshaw has been a hero to some racists, misogynists and anti-semites in the North West for a few years. We speak to Robbie Mullen, a former neo-nazi who risked his life to blow the whistle on Renshaw; Ruth Smeeth, the Labour MP who told Cooper about the plot, and the BBC’s Daniel De Simone, who covered the case, to understand why neo-Nazis are radicalising against women.
Producer: Lucy Hancock Mixed by Nicolas Raufast Editor: John Shields
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