JOANNA Cherry has reported a further "incident of concern" to Police Scotland today and put in stronger security arrangements at her home. 

The Edinburgh South West MP was sacked earlier this month from her position as the SNP's justice and home affairs spokesperson at Westminster.

Shortly after her dismissal she said she received a “series of very scary and frightening messages” from a former SNP member, including a threat of sexual violence. A 30-year-old man was later charged in connection with the incident.

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This afternoon Cherry took to Twitter to give an update on her security situation.

"I’ve spent the morning arranging enhanced security at my home and reporting another incident of concern to police. Unfounded allegations and calls to arms on Twitter have consequences and I hope politicians from all parties will bear this in mind," she wrote.

In an interview last week Cherry said she would never have got involved in frontline politics had she known “the level of abuse and threats” she would receive from within her own party.

The high-profile MP and QC was sacked amid deepening divisions in the party over Alex Salmond, the independence strategy and reform of the Gender Recognition Act.

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Despite her security fears, Cherry last week told a podcast interview with Holyrood magazine that said she has not had any contact from First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.

She also revealed she didn't want to be SNP - after specualation following her two successful legal campaigns on Brexit against the UK Government - and that she may quit politics.

She said: “I am a pretty strong person. I have a loving family, a loving girlfriend and some fantastic staff who work for me and a lot of support within the party.

“I think somebody who didn’t have that would probably have cracked up under the strain I’ve been put under.

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“Had I known the level of abuse and threats I would receive from within my own party, and the repeated briefing against me and attempts to smear me from within my own party, without the sort of support I would’ve expected from the leadership, then I would not have stood to be a candidate.

“I don’t regret standing because I care passionately about the cause, but had I known what I was going to go through, I wouldn’t have stood.

“I know for a fact, because woman write to me and email me, that looking at what’s happened to me is putting women off entering politics.”

She later added: “I’m very upset and very hurt that nobody from the leadership of my party has condemned the abuse that I received last week, which included a threat of serious sexual violence.”

Last week she told the New Statesman she was the target of “an 18-month campaign of social media lies, smears and foul-mouthed abuse directed at me from a number of mainly young men within the party who seem to have a problem with middle-aged lesbians who support women’s sex-based rights”.

SNP sources have previously stressed Cherry was not sacked for her views, but for a “pattern of behaviour”.

Research from 2018 by Amnesty International suggested that Cherry was the second most abused member of parliament on social media, behind the Labour MP Diane Abbott.

Police Scotland have been approached for a comment.