Viscount jailed for threat to campaigner

♦ A viscount has been jailed for 12 weeks after offering money on Facebook for someone to kill the Brexit campaigner Gina Miller.

The judge said Rhodri Philipps, the 4th Viscount St Davids was motivated by a “hatred of anybody who has different views to yours”. Philipps had posted: “£5,000 for the first person to ‘accidentally’ run over this bloody troublesome first generation immigrant.”

He was convicted at Westminster magistrates’ court of two counts of sending menacing messages on a public communications network.