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“If you decide to go ahead and ruin our lives, you may as well prepare your grave, too. I swear to God I will make sure the bullet goes between your eyes.”

Virginia Ridley read those words in a letter mailed to her home in May, after she waded into a controversial bylaw debate – about removing the limit city hall keeps on taxi licences in the city – during a council committee meeting.

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It was part of a death threat sent anonymously to her home and city hall office.

“This was so targeted and so specific. I’d never experienced anything like this before. And it showed up at my house, in my son’s hand,” Ridley said. It was her child who brought in the mail.

Police haven’t identified the sender, but continue to investigate, Ridley said. London police don’t comment on active investigations, media officer Const. Sandasha Bough told The Free Press.

Ridley knew removing the cap on taxi plates would be contentious.