Viscount jailed for offering money for killing of Gina Miller

[muriel_volestrangler]

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An aristocrat has been jailed for 12 weeks after offering money to anyone who would run over and kill Gina Miller, the campaigner whose court fight forced the government to consult parliament before triggering the Brexit process.

Rhodri Philipps, the fourth Viscount St Davids, was convicted on Tuesday of two counts of sending malicious communications. He wrote on Facebook that he would put up “£5,000 for the first person to ‘accidentally’ run over this bloody troublesome first-generation immigrant”, soon after she won her high court case.

The judge told Philipps he had directed “extreme racial abuse” towards Miller and caused her distress. Sitting at Westminster magistrates court on Thursday, senior district judge Emma Arbuthnot said Philipps had attempted to justify his actions by claiming that public figures were fair game.

“Why public figures deserve this warped behaviour is beyond me,” she told him.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jul/13/viscount-jailed-for-offering-money-for-killing-of-gina-miller

Good. The atmosphere of hatred and bigotry from extreme Brexiteers has to be stopped.

[LeftishBrit]

1. Glad he's being punished, though 12 weeks for incitement to murder seems rather lenient

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. Might be hard to prove it was meant as 'incitement to murder'

while 'sending malicious communications' covers just wanting to cause trouble and fear for her.

[LeftishBrit]

3. Fair enough; better to have him convicted on something clear-cut, than get off because of an

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argument over intent.

Still, especially after Jo Cox, it should be fairly clear to anyone with the brains of a flea that such public threats could have nasty consequences. Of course, this viscount may *not* have the brains of a flea.