Viscount jailed for offering money to kill Brexit campaigner Miller

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

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

The 50-year-old wrote the comment just four days after Ms Miller won a landmark High Court challenge against the government last year.

Philipps, of Knightsbridge, central London, described her as a “boat jumper”, and added: “If this is what we should 0 Rhodri Philipps jailed for 12 weeks for Facebook message expect from immigrants, send them back to their stinking jungles.”

He was convicted at London’s Westminster Magistrates’ Court of two counts of sending menacing messages on a public electronic communications network.

The other post Philipps was convicted for was in response to a news article about an immigrant and his children.

A five-year restraining order was also placed against Philipps in order to “protect “Ms Miller, along with Arnold Sube, the immigrant he abused online, and Matthew Steeples, who informed Ms Miller about the racist material.

Senior district judge Emma Arbuthnot ordered the recently bankrupt Philipps to pay £500 compensation.