Blair torture call ‘came after threat to Brexit campaigner’

u A viscount who threatened Brexit campaigner Gina Miller on Facebook also posted about torturing Tony Blair, a court heard. Rhodri Philipps, 50, the 4th Viscount St Davids, wrote the message four days after Ms Miller won a High Court challenge against the Government last year.

He posted: “£5,000 for the first person to ‘accidentally’ run over this bloody troublesome first generation immigrant.”

Four days later he posted about “torturing Tony Blair, Hillary Clinton, Isis, Dave (PM) the forgettable, Murdoch ... Oh and that hideous jumped up immigrant Gina Miller”.

Philipps, of Knightsbridge, central London, is on trial at Westminster magistrates’ court for three counts of sending menacing messages on a public electronic communications network.

Philipps accepts writing the posts, but said they were not publicly visible and were not menacing.

The trial continues.