A Glasgow MP who moved to a safe house after a death threat has called for women in the public eye to have more protection.
Carol Monaghan feared for her and her family's lives when online abuse turned into detailed threats.
Earlier this month Jonathan Bell, 35, admitted his behaviour caused her "fear or alarm" and the SNP MP for Glasgow North West says social media companies must take action to end misogynistic abuse.
Twitter said it takes action against accounts which violate rules on abuse and harassment, reports the BBC.
Carol has always received attacks via her social media accounts - but after a series of offensive tweets emerged from a particular individual, the attacks turned sinister.
Messages she was sent included references to murdered MP Jo Cox before windows were smashed at her constituency office in Partick.
The office front was also splattered with ketchup while the MP was in London.
Ms Monaghan told BBC Scotland's The Seven programme: "When my staff came in it was quite a disturbing thing to see.
"It was obviously meant to look like blood across the windows. That was the start of the physical activities."
Things then got worse when a death threat was made against her.
"It was phoned in and it contained enough details about my personal life, enough detail to cause the police to take it seriously," she explained.
"I got a call from my office manager. The police had contacted him to say there was what they considered to be a credible threat.
"They weren't necessarily sure I should come back to Glasgow. But I was keen that I did come back to Glasgow - my family were here."
Ms Monaghan said was terrified for her family, adding: "Because of the personal nature of the threat and the personal details, I knew he knew where I lived, I knew he knew who my kids were. I just had to be there.
"That evening when we came back from the police station to the house, the police wouldn't let us into the house until the whole area had been searched.
"They spent the night outside the house and very early the next morning we left and went to a safe place."
Bell harassed the SNP MP between January and April 2019.
At Glasgow Sheriff Court he pled guilty to causing fear or alarm and will be sentenced next month.
Ms Monaghan puts a lot of what happened down to social media.
She said: "Social media gives people a platform, it gives them a way of directly contacting a person - at any time of the day or night.
"It gives them the opportunity to say things anonymously. It gives them a whole lot of protection that the target of their abuse does not have."
Ms Monaghan believes any woman in a public role is party to this abuse, and says she has been told told to "grow a thick skin" and get used to it.
But, she says: "Really, why should we take that level of abuse? We wouldn't accept it in a workplace, but we are just supposed to take it and somehow we are to blame if we don't."
She is calling for safeguards to be put in place and insists the main issue is with people being untraceable.
She said: "This idea that an abuser on Twitter can stay anonymous cannot be right.
"I understand some people want to interact on Twitter anonymously for the best of reasons but there is also a huge hiding place for people who want to put more sinister stuff out there. We need a way of identifying users and take action against them for tweets that are offensive."
The MP considered giving up politics because of the abuse but said: "I live here in Glasgow and I represent the area where I live and I love to walk about in this area. I don't want that to change. And I don't want it to change as a result of this."
In response, Twitter told the BBC: "Abuse and harassment have no place on our service. We have clear rules in place that apply to everyone, everywhere, that address threats of violence, abuse and harassment and hateful conduct, and we take action when we identify accounts that violate these rules."
