Should a person get scared if someone makes a death threat against them on Facebook or any other social networking site? What if the death threat came from the widow of a slain underworld crime figure? What can the law do to protect you?
In the case of 50-year old Melbourne woman, Wendy Peirce, the answer is a sentence of six months' jail. She pleaded guilty to two charges of threatening to inflict serious injury and one charge of stalking her late husband's lovers.
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According to evidence, Wendy Peirce sent one of the women that she threatened a message on social networking website Facebook threatening to "blow your f...ing head off".
