{"id":3853,"date":"2016-12-07T08:28:34","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T13:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=3853"},"modified":"2016-12-07T08:36:40","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T13:36:40","slug":"man-arrested-online-threat-brexit-challenger-gina-miller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2016\/12\/07\/man-arrested-online-threat-brexit-challenger-gina-miller\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Arrested Over Online Threat To Brexit Challenger Gina Miller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police have arrested a man over threats made to Gina Miller, the businesswoman behind the legal challenge to Brexit.<\/p>\n<p>The 55-year old suspect was arrested in Swindon on suspicion of racially aggravated malicious communications.\u00a0He was later released on bail.<\/p>\n<p>Officers from the Met&#8217;s Falcon Unit launched an investigation over online threats allegedly made to Miller since\u00a0November 3.<\/p>\n<p>Gina Miller, 51, said on Monday that she had received a series of racist messages following her decision to spearhead a High Court challenge against the Government.<\/p>\n<p>The Remain campaigner recently revealed she was spending thousands on personal security.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Miller, an investment manager and philanthropist, spearheaded the campaign which argues Theresa May should not be able to trigger Article 50 and begin Brexit proceedings without a parliamentary vote.<\/p>\n<p>On November 3, the High Court ruled in Ms Miller&#8217;s favour, mandating Parliament to vote on when the process can begin.<\/p>\n<p>An appeal from the Government is currently being heard in the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Miller told BBC Radio 5 live that she was &#8220;apparently the most-hated woman in Britain&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>She said her high-profile role had led to death and gang rape threats.<\/p>\n<p>Police say that as a part of the same investigation they issued a &#8216;cease and desist&#8217; notice to a 38-year-old man from Fife in\u00a0Scotland.<\/p>\n<p>Source: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/sky-news-logo-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/sky-news-logo-1.png\" alt=\"Sky News\" width=\"100\" height=\"20\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/man-arrested-over-online-threat-to-brexit-challenger-gina-miller-10686481\" target=\"_blank\">SkyNews.Com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Police have arrested a man over threats made to Gina Miller, the businesswoman behind the legal challenge to Brexit. The 55-year old suspect was arrested in Swindon on suspicion of racially aggravated malicious communications.\u00a0He was <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2016\/12\/07\/man-arrested-online-threat-brexit-challenger-gina-miller\/\" title=\"Man Arrested Over Online Threat To Brexit Challenger Gina Miller\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[109,2,4],"tags":[218,541,1453,542,1547],"class_list":{"0":"post-3853","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headline","8":"category-news","9":"category-uk","10":"tag-arrest","11":"tag-article-50","12":"tag-brexit","13":"tag-gina-miller","14":"tag-threat","15":"pmpro-has-access"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3855,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3853\/revisions\/3855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}