Gina Miller: Police probe fundraiser page ‘for hitman to kill anti-Brexit campaigner’

Page remained online for months before finally being reported to police

Police are investigating a crowdfunding page which advocated killing anti-Brexit campaigner Gina Miller.

The page, which has been on the GoFundMe website since April, sought to generate £10,000 for an assassin to kill Ms Miller, but did not raise any money before it was taken down.

A Met Police spokesman said: “Officers from the Met’s southwest CID team are currently investigating a report of threats to kill that was reported to them on 23 October.

“Enquiries remain ongoing and the victim, a female aged in her fifties, has been regularly updated.”

A GoFundMe spokesman said: “This campaign has been removed.

“We are sorry it got through our otherwise robust procedures. We are particularly sorry for any distress this caused Gina Miller.”

Responding to the page on Twitter, Ms Miller said: “We need to heal our nation and my view is that the only way of doing that is to remember true British values of tolerance, decency, reason, civic duty, common sense and above all else honesty and kindness.”

Speaking to the Sunday Mirror, Ms Miller said: “This is horrifying. It beggars belief that this can have been allowed to have been put up on this site and stayed there for so long.”

“There is of course no excuse for any individual to resort to inciting murder, but it shows how bad things have got.

“Certain extremist politicians and commentators must take their share of responsibility and recognise that incendiary language – and continually ratcheting up the stakes – has consequences.”

Businesswoman Ms Miller has spoken of being subjected to rape and death threats after coming to prominence three years ago for leading the campaign against triggering Brexit without parliamentary approval.

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