Viscount who offered £5,000 to run over Gina Miller jailed

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 expect from immigrants, send them back to their stinking jungles.”

Four days later he posted about “torturing Tony Blair, Hilary Clinton, ISIS, Dave (PM) the forgettable, Murdoch….. Oh and that hideous jumped up immigrant Gina Miller”.

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.

He had also talked about a “new crusade” and “collective register of Muslims” and added: “Makes the job a lot easier for our collective SIS to track down non-conformists, and frankly, shoot them on the spot”.

“The tyranny of Islam and it’s ignorant (goat f******) brethren has to be destroyed,” he added.

The post was read to court but deemed inadmissible as bad character evidence by senior district judge Emma Arbuthnot.

Ms Miller, 52, said she found his comments about her “genuinely shocking” and felt “violated”.

She said she was “very scared for the safety of herself and her family” in a statement read to the court on Monday.

“In addition to finding it offensive, racist and hateful, she was extremely concerned that someone would threaten to have her run over for a bounty,” prosecutor Philip Stott said in opening.

“She took the threat seriously, and it contributed to her employing professional security for her protection.”

Ms Miller was subjected to a torrent of abuse and threats after spearheading the legal challenge which forced Theresa May to consult Parliament before beginning the formal process of leaving the EU.