Edited sentence: " and "I should have come down here with a bat and smashed your face in.In response, Conservative MP Priti Patel stated “Serious questions must be asked about whether she has misled the public in her account so far of what she knew and when she knew it.It’s completely unacceptable to respond to legitimate press queries, however unwelcome they may be, with physical or verbal abuse.Michelle Stanistreet, General Secretary of the National Union of Journalists, said: “Journalists, like any other workers, need to be able to go about their work without fear of threats or assault.The Labour party claimed that Osamor, who lives and works with her son, knew nothing about his case until his sentencing on 26th October, but it later emerged that she had known about it earlier and had written to the trial judge asking for leniency before his sentencing on 19th October.Upon being questioned on her doorstep by Times reporter Will Humphries about whether she had misled the public over the extent of her knowledge of her son's court case, Osamor threw a bucket of water at Humphries and shouted "Fuck off.”  She then called the police emergency service to accuse him of “stalking” her, calling the police emergency service again the following night in relation to the presence of another reporter.” Patel also called for an investigation by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, both regarding allegedly misleading the public and the continued employment of Osamor's son