A woman who started a petition to stop footballer Ched Evans from playing again after his rape conviction has told Sky News of the "vicious" online abuse she has suffered.
Evans has again protested his innocence after leaving prison, having served half his sentence for raping a 19-year-old girl.
His former club, Sheffield United, have not yet said whether he will play for them again.
But more than 150,000 people have signed the petition launched by the woman, who uses the pseudonym Jean Hatchet.
She said some of the abuse she had received from Twitter users implied that they hoped she would be raped.
"It's been pretty brutal over the last couple of days, I think, because people were anticipating the release, and people blame me, bizarrely, for jeopardising the football club's chances in the league," she said.
"One man called for me to be put in an acid bath.
"Someone else tweeted me: 'It's a shame you never fell into the path of Peter Sutcliffe', who of course is a serial killer and rapist."
She said Sheffield United would be sending out the wrong message if they chose to employ Evans again.
"I think it's about consent," she said.
"If a rapist is out on the streets, out on the pitch, out in the bars and clubs of his city, whichever city he's chosen to play for, and that man has no concept of what rape is, he's in front of thousands of other men who need that message very strongly.
"If you have sex with a woman who's unable to give her consent, that's rape, and if he doesn't understand that, he puts the shirt back on and he walks out with that message, because he's got that message on his back as much as his name, then I think that's a very, very dangerous thing.
"Vodka doesn't rape women, darks streets don't rape women, short skirts don't rape women. Rapists do.
"Ched Evans is a rapist, a court told him so, a jury told him so. He doesn't accept it, but he raped a woman.
"This is (Sheffield United's) opportunity to say we realise that rape is a very, very serious crime, we realise that male violence against women is very serious, we take it seriously, we don't want to reappoint somebody who is giving a negative message to our supporters."
A statement released on behalf of Evans said: "Next week Ched will make a very personal and profound statement by video which will be on his site and available for use by the media should they choose to do so.
"Ched is now adjusting to normal life after serving a sentence for a crime consistently denied."
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