Stella Creasy sends message to perpetrators who attacked her Walthamstow office and distributed 'malicious' leaflets

A Labour candidate has said she will not be intimidated after her office was attacked and “malicious and false leaflets” were distributed.

Stella Creasy published images of Saturday night’s attack on her office in Walthamstow, north-east London, where she is fighting for the seat she has held since 2010.

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A window and a glass door had several holes and the glass was cracked.

She also said that “malicious and false” leaflets had been distributed.

Ms Creasy wrote on social media: ‘Message to whoever attacked my office last night.

“You do not intimidate me and you have no place in the political process.

“The same as those who distribute malicious and false leaflets.

“The police are already tracking you down. They will push for the harshest punishments for such an undemocratic attack and I know that Walthamstow will not be intimidated or influenced by your violence.”

A Labour Party spokesman told Sky News: “We strongly condemn any intimidation tactics against candidates from any party.”

“It is crucial for our democracy that parliamentary candidates can campaign freely.”

Ms Creasy was a frontbencher under Ed Miliband and Harriet Harman when they were Labour leader and acting leader respectively.

The 47-year-old is a vocal critic of Jeremy Corbyn and said the party was “out of luck” under his leadership.

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Ms Creasy received numerous rape threats and other misogynistic messages on her Twitter timeline in 2013 after she supported feminist activist Caroline Criado Perez, who lobbied the Bank of England to print a woman on the £10 note.

Last year, Ms Creasy announced that she investigated by their local council after a man complained under an assumed name that her “extreme views” were harming her children and that they should be taken away from her.

The complaint was dismissed and the man, who had no personal connection to Ms Creasy or her children, apologised.