By Martin Tooth
BBC Newsnight
Mel Greig tells Newsnight’s Evan Davis: ”The trolling and the death threats were disgusting”
A radio DJ who took part in a hoax call after which a nurse killed herself has told of her own fears after receiving death threats and bullets in the post.
Mel Greig said: “I was in lockdown for months. There were bullets with our name on it sent to police stations.”
She told Newsnight that at one point someone had rung her mother and said “eye for an eye, you deserve to die”.
Jacintha Saldanha died in 2012, after the hoax call to a London hospital treating the Duchess of Cambridge.
Ms Greig and colleague Michael Christian made their prank call to King Edward VII’s Hospital in …read more
Source:: BBC Entertainment
