FRANCES Curran, the Scottish Socialist Party's candidate, has been the subject of death threats, it emerged last night.
Ms Curran, a former SSP MSP, said officers from the Strathclyde Police Operational Support Division visited her yesterday to say they had intelligence that there was a threat against her.
Police did not tell the politician who had made the threat.
However Mrs Curran said she would not be intimidated by the threats and continue to fight the by-election.
The candidate said she had sent her eight-year-old son to stay elsewhere after hearing of the threat, but insisted she would not move out of her Glasgow home.
She said: "The police said they have intelligence that there is a threat against my home and me, and they were duty bound to let me know and offer me support and protection. They think it's probably only going to last till the end of the election.
"I am concerned, but I live here and I'm not being intimidated, and I'm not going to be intimidated out of politics.
"If I'm intimidated out of politics then it is a defeat for democracy."
She added: "I did try to find out who had made the threat, but the police did not divulge who it was. My suspicion is that it's the far right-wing neo-Nazis."
Mrs Curran said that police have advised her to be vigilant and have also offered to come and check the security at her home and to step up patrols in the area.
Strathclyde Police said they could not comment.
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