Joshua Bonehill-Paine
Joshua Bonehill-Paine, is a far right activist who in December 2015 was jailed for three years and four months jail for inciting racial hatred. He had posted 'vile, anti-Semitic material' online ahead of a planned neo-Nazi rally in Golders Green, North London. [1]
In January 2016 he was reportedly under investigation for sending racist letters from two prisons – Manchester and Wandsworth. [2]
Online abuse campaign against MP Luciana Berger
Joshua Bonehill-Paine wrote five hate-filled online blogs about MP Luciana Berger. He variously called her a 'dominatrix' and 'an evil money-grabber' with a 'deep-rooted hatred of men'. In one, he claimed the number of Jewish Labour MPs was a 'problem'. His posts were illustrated with offensive pictures, including a rat with Berger’s face superimposed on it. He also praised the 'Filthy Jew Bitch Campaign', which led to 2,500 hateful tweets being sent to her, all of it led by US white supremacist website Daily Stormer.
Berger took him to court, where he was found guilt and jailed for two years in December 2016. He also received a criminal behaviour order, carrying a penalty of up to five years in jail, barring the defendant from directly or indirectly contacting Berger, her former assistant and other named individuals.
His online activities will be monitored for the duration of the order, which is effective on his release from jail. The judge said:
- 'It is abundantly clear from all the evidence in the case and the material I have been provided with that he is tenacious in his use of the internet as a retaliatory weapon against anyone with whom he wishes to pick a dispute.'
Seeing that, at the time of the abuse campaign, Bonehill-Paine was already on bail awaiting sentence for making false claims on Twitter that several people were paedophiles, The judge added that he had 'amassed a formidable record of hate crime' at the age of just 24. Bonhill-Paine merely smirked when he received his sentence. [3]
External resources
- Josh Fordham Yeovil man Joshua Bonehill-Paine charged with harassing Luciana Berger MP, Western Gazette, 17 June 2016
Notes
- ↑ Far right activist Joshua Bonehill-Payne jailed for anti-Semitic posts, BBC News, 17 December 2015, Accessed 8 September 2016.
- ↑ Fanatic investigated, Western Daily Press, 20 January 2016. Accessed 8 September 2016.
- ↑ Damien Gayle, Man who harassed MP Luciana Berger online is jailed for two years, The Guardian, 08 December 2016. Accessed 15 December 2016.
