Probe into crowdfund campaign to kill Remain backer Gina

Sick fund aims to raise £10k for a hitman

A CROWDFUNDING page set up to pay for the murder of Remain campaigner Gina Miller is being investigated by police.

The sick fund, started by an anonymous account called Jeff Blogger, aimed to raise £10,000 for a hitman to kill the businesswoman who has won two legal cases against the Government.

Published on gofundme.com it had been online since April.

Speaking exclusively to the Sunday Mirror, Mrs Miller said last night: “This is horrifying. It beggars belief that this can have been allowed to have been put up on this site and stayed there for so long.”

The page gave chilling detail of how the money would be used. It read: “We want to raise £10,000 to hire a contract killer to kill Gina Miller. The Traitor of Democracy.”

Responding to the threat, brave Mrs Miller urged politicians to think carefully about how their language incites hate.

She said: “There is of course no excuse for any individual to resort to inciting murder, but it shows how bad things have got. Certain extremist politicians and commentators must take their share of responsibility and recognise that incendiary language – and continually ratcheting up the stakes – has consequences.”

The gofundme page is the latest in a string of threats against Mrs Miller. Racist viscount Rhodri Philipps offered £5,000 on Facebook to “the first person to ‘accidentally’ run over this bloody troublesome first-generation immigrant”. He was jailed for 12 weeks in 2017.

His vile outburst had been posted soon after Mrs Miller won a high court case challenging the Government’s power to implement Brexit without approval from Parliament.

At the time she said dealing with death threats was “the way I live my life”. She went on to fight Boris Johnson’s prorogation of Parliament, ruled illegal by the Supreme Court last month. Police yesterday confirmed: “Officers from the Met’s South West CID team are currently investigating a report of threats to kill.”

A gofundme spokesman said the page had been removed, adding: “We are particularly sorry for any distress this caused Gina Miller.”

It beggars belief that this was allowed on this site for so long

GINA MILLER REMAINER AND BUSINESSWOMAN