Troll jailed for anti-Jewish rants at Labour MP Luciana Berger

A 24-year-old man has been jailed for two years for harassing Labour MP Luciana Berger in a string of anti-Jewish blogs.

A jury at the Old Bailey found Joshua Bonehill-Paine guilty of racially aggravated harassment on Wednesday.

During today's sentencing, the judge described him as someone who had "amassed a formidable record of hate crime", despite being aged only 24.

Mr Justice Spencer said Bonehill-Paine, of Yeovil in Somerset, was responsible for a "cruel campaign of vile racist abuse" on his "obnoxious" online newspaper.

The court had heard that Bonehill-Paine had posted five blogs about Ms Berger, the MP for Liverpool Wavertree, in support of jailed far-right extremist Garron Helm.

During this time, Bonehill-Paine was on bail awaiting sentence for making false claims on Twitter accusing several people of being paedophiles.

While he was on police bail over the matter involving Ms Berger, Bonehill-Paine had been stirring up racial hatred in a flyer for a neo-Nazi rally in north London.

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