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Rebecca Reid, the Ottawa woman convicted of threatening and harassing MPP Lisa MacLeod last year, has been arrested again and is facing more charges following another series of unsettling emails targeting the cabinet minister.

“Do you know how hard it is for me not to get a bat and beat her face?” Reid wrote in a Jan. 31 email to provincial government offices.

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“I’m seeing images of her dead eyes again.”

The mother of a severely autistic boy, Reid has long directed her anger over the government’s autism strategy towards MacLeod, now Ontario’s minister of tourism, culture and sport.

Reid pleaded guilty to criminal harassment and uttering threats last summer and was spared jail. The judge gave her probation — including an order to leave MacLeod alone — and a 10-year weapons ban.

In a Jan. 31 email, Reid said: “My weapons ban may expire right around the time I have to institutionalize my son. If that happens because we don’t have enough support and my son didn’t get needs-based therapy, I swear I will take out my rage on MacLeod.”