Man arrested for abusing anti-sexism campaigner Caroline Criado-Perez on Twitter

A unidentified man has been taken under custody after a feminist campaigner Caroline Criado-Perez, was subjected to threats of sexual violence on Twitter.

According to Scotland Yard, a 21-year-old chap was apprehended earlier in Manchester in connection with the barrage of hostile tweets, the BBC reported.

The abuse started after she successfully campaigned for a woman's face to appear on British banknotes.

Criado-Perez said that the abusive tweets began the day it was announced that author Jane Austen would appear on the newly designed 10 pound note.

Criado-Perez said that she went to the cops after receiving around 50 abusive tweets an hour for about 12 hours.

 

She asserted that she had stumbled into a nest of men who co-ordinate attacks on women.