Dragons Star ‘Duncan Bannatyne’s daughter threat drama ended

Duncan Bannatyne star of Dragon Den has undertaken a £30,000 prize to assist catch a man who purportedly endangered his daughter on Twitter.

The entrepreneur’s spokesman has told that police in County Durham are inspecting, adding his daughter "was secure where she is".

The force verified Mr Bannatyne "has reported that several of threatening messages he had received via email and Twitter in which risks were made against a member of his family".

A police spokesman has said they were inquiring the "reliability of the threats".

In a statement, the businessman himself said: "My family is in under best security but I take any threat to them very critically and will do all I can to make sure the person or people concerned are caught."

A Twitter user gets in touch with the businessman with a sequence of emails and tweets. The suspected criminal used the famous micro-blogging site to catch the star's focus to a pastebin message which reportedly read: "Duncan - Dear Dragon.

"We are watching her. She is very attractive. Want photos? Tweet using the hash-tag #4money to verify payment will be made."

The health club mogul replied by saying: "Go home to your mum and weep we are closing in on you little boy."

Mr. Bannatyne afterward removed this comment from his page.

His followers have attempted to track down the suspected criminal and may have found him on Facebook - but it is not identified if he is the person who sent the tweets. There are advises that the alleged performer was from Moscow.

A spokesman for the Durham force said: "Durham Constabulary can verify Duncan Bannatyne has reported numerous of threatening messages he had received via email and Twitter in which endangers were made against a member of his family.

"These come out to initiate from an email address based in Russia.

"We have been linking since then with Mr. Bannatyne and resulting investigation into the integrity of these threats."