The Duchess of Sussex faced disgusting threats while a serving royal, an outgoing Met Police boss says.
The Duchess of Sussex received "disgusting and very real" threats while a working royal, the outgoing Metropolitan Police assistant commissioner has said.People have been prosecuted over the threats, he told Channel 4 News.he did not feel safe when visiting the UK.
The couple have often spoken about the abuse they received before they left and how it affected their mental health. As early as 2016, after the couple went public with their relationship,Neil Basu - the former head of counter-terrorism policing in England -"If you'd seen the stuff that was written and you were receiving it, the kind of rhetoric that's online, if you don't know what I know, you would feel under threat all of the time," he said.
He said he had previously spoken publicly about the threat of "extreme right-wing terrorism", saying it was the "fastest growing" threat that he dealt with. "When I started in counter-terrorism in 2015, it was about 6% of our total workload. When I left 15, 16 months ago, it was over 20% of our workload."He became an officer at the Met in 1992 before rising through the ranks and has been outspoken about race and policing over the years.
He added: "I speak about race because I know something about race because I'm a 54-year-old mixed-race man."
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