JOURNALIST Patricia Devlin is to lodge a complaint with the Police Ombudsman after what she claims has been a "year of inaction" by the PSNI in investigating a threat.
The Sunday World reporter received the threat by direct message to her personal Facebook account in October 2019.
The sender threatened to rape her newborn son. It was signed with the name of a neo-Nazi terror group, Combat 18, which in the past has had links to loyalist paramilitaries in Northern Ireland.
Ms Devlin said when she received the threat, it also identified her grandmother and the location of where the sender believed she lived.
"I reported the threat to the PSNI and was even able to name the individual I suspect was behind the threat," she said.
"The police have had this individual’s name all this time, yet, a year on, no-one has been brought in for questioning, never mind arrested."
She added: "It is not acceptable for journalists to have to live under this sort of constant threat, to themselves and their families, simply for doing their jobs".
Ms Devlin is being supported by solicitors KRW Law, Amnesty International and the National Union of Journalists (NUJ).
Patrick Corrigan from Amnesty said the threats are "totally abhorrent and are part of a wider climate of violence which is now undermining press freedom in Northern Ireland".
