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Hate blogger Bonehill-Paine told MP Luciana Berger ‘Watch your back Jewish scum’

Far-right blogger Joshua Bonehill-Paine has been convicted of targeting Labour MP Luciana Berger with antisemitic hatred.

December 9, 2016 12:56
Luciana Berger

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Lee Harpin,

By Lee Harpin

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On Wednesday afternoon, he was found guilty of racially aggravated harassment. The Old Bailey jury deliberated for just 75 minutes before reaching its verdict.

Bonehill-Paine, 24, had posted five “hateful and insulting” articles about Ms Berger in which he branded her “a rodent”, a “money grabber” and “evil”. He was expected to be sentenced on Thursday.

The jury was not told that Bonehill-Paine had been sentenced to three years and four months in prison in December 2015 for inciting racial hatred against Jews by organising a neo-Nazi march in Golders Green. A flyer featuring a picture of Auschwitz said the planned rally would be “a gas”.

Welcoming the guilty verdict, the Community Security Trust applauded the MP’s courage “in reporting his abuse and giving evidence against him.

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