One of the BBC’s most senior news journalists has revealed that he received death threats back in 2017, deemed so serious that the man sending them was later detained. Clive Myrie, who is Black, to…
Myrie, who has worked for the BBC for 36 years and won numerous awards including for his most recent despatches from Ukraine, toldhe felt uneasy but dismissed the messages as “banter from a sad racist.” However, it later transpired that the man had sent 27 threatening messages between 2015 and 2017, and had previously been arrested for posting a menu with racist messages to an Indian restaurant. Police had found firearms at his home and the man had served a jail sentence.
Myrie, who has written a memoir detailing his parents’ background in Jamaica and their journey to the UK as part of the
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