An internet troll that targeted a Liverpool MP in an online hate campaign has been jailed for two years.
Joshua Bonehill-Paine was handed the sentence at the Old Bailey after being found guilty of subjecting Luciana Berger to racially aggravated harassment.
The representative for Wavertree faced a series of anti-Semitic tirades from Bonehill-Paine, a neo-Nazi extremist from Yeovil, for over four months.
He had targeted Ms Berger in response to the prosecution of another far-right extremist who was also jailed for aggressively targeting the politician.
Garron Helm, a neo-Nazi residing in Liverpool, was put behind bars for four weeks in October 2014 after pleading guilty to a similar offence.
Bonehill-Paine, 24, wrote five hate-fuelled blogs in which he called the politician a ‘money grabber’ and claimed that the number of Jewish MPs was ‘a problem’.
Prior to sentencing, Ms Berger gave evidence at the Old Bailey at how Bonehill-Paine’s campaign of harassment had left her feeling ‘unsafe’.
At the time of going to trial, Bonehill-Paine was already in prison serving a sentence of three years and four months over a conviction in December last year.
He was previously sentenced for posting anti-Semitic material ahead of a planned neo-Nazi rally in Golders Green, London.