Viscount faces prison for threatening messages

A viscount who offered money to kill Brexit campaigner Gina Miller faces jail after being convicted of sending menacing messages.

Rhodri Philipps, 50, the 4th Viscount St Davids, wrote: “£5,000 for the first person to ‘accidentally’ run over this bloody troublesome first generation immigrant.”

Philipps, of Knightsbridge, central London, was convicted of two counts of sending menacing messages.

Senior District Judge Emma Arbuthnot found the post to be racially aggravated and told Philipps he faces a prison term when he is sentenced on Thursday.