Police investigate ‘Kill Gina Miller’ crowdfunding page

The page was reported to the police on October 23

PICTURED: Gina Miller

THE MET Police have begun an investigation into a crowdfunding page advocating for the murder of anti-Brexit canpaigner Gina Miller.

Entitled ‘Kill Gina Miller’, the crowdfund on GoFundMe’s website has been live since April, aiming to raise £10,000 for a hitman to killer Miller.

The page didn’t raise any money and has since been taken down.

A spokesperson for GoFundMe 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.”

A Metropolitan police spokesman confirmed that officers from Met’s south-west CID team are investigating the page after it was reported to them on October 23.

“Enquiries remain ongoing and the victim, a female aged in her 50s, has been regularly updated.”

Miller responded to the petition on Twitter. She 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.”

Miller has continuously been subjected to death threats and faced both sexism and racism since leading the campaign to ensure parliament had a say in triggering Brexit three years ago.

In an interview with The Voice last month, Miller said the threats against herself and her family are “terrifying”. 

“The online stuff I don’t worry about so much, because a lot of that is armchair abuse.

“But it’s when I get the packages or letters – if I get stuff with white powder and I’m not sure what that is – so have to hand it in to the police.

“Or the most scary ones are if I get something, a message or an email or a letter, which says, ‘We know where your children are, we know where their school is – we’re going to take them today’.

She added: “The threats against my family and my children especially, that’s terrifying. And I still get those all the time. And, in an odd way, it has made me even more determined to carry on. It’s had the opposite effect of frightening me.”

Read our full interview with Gina Miller in the October edition of The Voice Newspaper – available to purchase here

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