Independent WA senator Fatima Payman says her office continues to receive daily racist messages, after a 51-year-old Ballarat man avoided jail after sending her death threats over email in March.

Sean David Sharman pleaded guilty and was sentenced to an 18-month community correction order and was ordered to treat his alcohol addiction in Ballarat Magistrates Court on Monday.

Senator Fatima Payman. Credit: Alex Ellinghausen

Sharman derided Payman’s Muslim faith in the emails, and told her he had a bullet with her name on it in one threatening message.

Payman told this masthead she accepted the court’s sentence, but said there needed to be stronger deterrents for racism and hate speech, which her office continued to receive daily.

“I have faith that the court has considered all of t

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