They said ' they were going to kill me ' The Met found the house. Nobody was arrested.

In late 2022, way before UK Dispatch was a thing, I was one of those political accounts talking about the news every day, and about what the mainstream media does not show. I put my email in my TikTok bio so people who did not have Instagram, or who didn't want to put a video on their own TikTok, could send me clips. Someone, or some people, then used that email to threaten to kill me.

From 18 April 2022 to 12 November 2022, every other day, an email arrived saying they were going to kill me. They put my face, using AI, onto disturbing images. They said they were outside my house, and that if I opened the door they would murder me. They said they had my full address and were going to firebomb the house while my family was asleep. Then it got more disturbing. They said they were going to skin my mum alive.

At first I let it slide. I told myself it was a troll. Then I sat down and contacted the police. I sent them the emails and the messages. They looked into it and told me they had tracked the email accounts and the TikTok pages to someone in London. I do not live in London, so it took three months for them to get it to the Met. It took another year on top of that for the Met to liaise with TikTok and the email company.

That is what scared me. Not just the threats to me. The threats to my parents. What I was doing on social media was my own doing. My parents were not part of it. If they appeared in a video which they didnt, Then I would of said ok your threating because of their opinion my parents are not as far right wing as me, My dad is leaning right because the things i say and show things because i am his news. My Mum is centre right. They had not asked for any of this, and they were the ones being named.

The Met traced the IP addresses on the accounts and the emails and found where the person lives. They could not do anything. Three other people live there, and another IP address belongs to someone who does not live there but visits regularly. They could not say which person sent it, so they could not arrest anyone.

I am speaking out now because other people have. Ben Leo at GB News, Patrick Christys, and others have talked about horrific threats, and that is what made me say this. Hopefully it makes other people stand up and speak as well.

Ryan Edwards Founder and owner of UK Dispatch