A man has been found guilty of the racially-aggravated harassment of an MP after sending anti-Semitic rants.<\/p>\n
Joshua Bonehill-Paine, 24, wrote five hate-filled blogs harassing Liverpool Wavertree MP Luciana Berger in 2014, a jury at the Old Bailey was told.<\/p>\n
Ms Berger told the court she “felt sick” and “very much under attack”.<\/p>\n
Bonehill-Paine, of Yeovil, Somerset, posted the articles after the jailing of fellow far-right extremist Garron Helm in October the same year.<\/p>\n
Helm, then 21, from Merseyside, had admitted sending a picture on Twitter depicting Ms Berger, 35, with a holocaust-era Star of David on her forehead and the hashtag “Hitler was right”.<\/p>\n
Over the next four months, Bonehill-Paine posted articles online calling her “an evil money-grabber” and claiming the number of Jewish Labour MPs was a “problem”.<\/p>\n
Giving evidence, Ms Berger said she feared for her safety because “what happens online does not always stay online”.<\/p>\n
The MP said: “It’s fair to say I was the most concerned I have ever been about my personal safety since I was elected.”<\/p>\n
Bonehill-Paine’s conviction comes after neo-Nazi Thomas Mair, 53, was handed a whole life term<\/a> at the same court for the murder of Labour MP Jo Cox.<\/p>\n In July, another internet troll, John Nimmo, 28, from South Shields, was convicted of making a death threat against Ms Berger by saying she would “get it like Jo Cox”.<\/p>\n During his trial, Bonehill-Paine was awaiting sentence for making claims on Twitter that several people were paedophiles.<\/p>\n He is currently serving three years and four months in jail over a conviction in December last year for posting anti-Semitic material <\/a>ahead of a planned neo-Nazi rally in Golders Green – home to many London-based Jews.<\/p>\n Mr Justice Spencer said he would adjourn sentencing to consider an application for a criminal behaviour order.<\/p>\n The maximum sentence for the racially aggravated offence is seven years.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n source\u00a0 http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-merseyside-38242100<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"