A viscount has been jailed for 12 weeks after offering money on Facebook for someone to run over Brexit campaigner Gina Miller.
Rhodri Philipps, the 4th Viscount St Davids of Knightsbridge , 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."
He was convicted on two counts of sending a menacing public communication on Tuesday (July 11) after a trial at Westminster Magistrates’ Court .
He was sentenced at the same court on Thursday July 13 to 12 weeks in prison.
The other post Philipps was convicted for was in response to a news article about an immigrant and his children. He initially denied the allegations .
Kate Mulholland, CPS London reviewing lawyer, had previously said: “This threat caused extreme concern to Gina Miller.
"And although Philipps claimed his Facebook friends would have been tolerant of his views they were open to the public.
“No-one should have these kind of menacing comments made to them or about them and where there is evidence of an offence the CPS and police will bring a prosecution.”
During the trial the CPS successfully asked the court to put in place orders to stop Phillips, who represented himself, personally cross-examining Gina Miller and another witness.
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