Racist Viscount who wanted Brexit challenger 'accidentally' run over begins 12-week jail term

An aristocrat who offered £5,000 for someone to “accidentally” run over anti-Brexit campaigner Gina Miller has abandoned his appeal against hs 12-week sentence.

Rhodri Philipps, The 4th Viscount St Davids, began his jail term on Friday after being warned the appeal was likely to result in his sentence being increased.

Philipps, also known as Lord St Davids and who has been declared bankrupt, was sentenced last month after being found guilty of two charges of sending by public communication network a menacing message.

Polo-playing Philipps, 50, said she was a “bloody troublesome first generation immigrant” who should be sent back to her “stinking jungle”.

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The messages were posted on Facebook.

He had been on bail after lodging an appeal at Southwark Crown Court against the length of his sentence, due to be heard today.

But he abandoned it after being warned the sentence could be increased.

Philipps blew kisses and waved at supporters in the public gallery as he was led from the dock, clutching a white bag for life, to start his jail term.

Judge Deborah Taylor, the Recorder of Westminster, said: “This court has the power to increase sentence.

“Having considered what we have so far, this is a moment at which it is necessary to say our preliminary view is there is a risk of that being the case.”

Philipps made the comments on November 7 last year, just four days after Ms Miller, 52, won a landmark High Court challenge over the Government’s bid to trigger Article 50 without a vote in Parliament.

Philipps, of Knightsbridge, central London, wrote a Facebook post related to an article headlined “Gina Miller clashes with Nigel Farage on TV over Brexit law challenge”.

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

“This f*****g boat jumper come to this country, then believes she knows better than the people of our country, what is best for us.

“If this what we should expect from immigrants, send them back to their stinking jungles.”

The other post Philipps was convicted for was about a Cameroonian immigrant with eight children.

He wrote on September 11 last year: “I will open the bidding. £2,000 in cash for the first person to carve Arnold Sube into pieces. Piece of s***.”

The post about Guyana-born Miss Miller was considered to be racially aggravated, which increased the sentence from eight to 12 weeks.

Guyana-born Ms Miller spearheaded the legal challenge to the Government’s Brexit stance last year.

She argued Parliament needed to be consulted before Article 50 could be triggered, and judges at the Supreme Court eventually ruled in her favour.

Phillipps was ordered to pay £500 compensation to Ms Miller as well as £250 cost and a £115 victim surcharge.