Jack Bennett, from Seaton, Devon, in the present day pleaded responsible to sending malicious communications to a few folks – together with the Birmingham Yardley MP – at Exeter Magistrates’ Court docket.
Bennett has been sentenced to twenty-eight weeks in jail.
“[She] was concerned for your potential to escalate or to encourage others for violence against her, having in her mind the murder of her colleague Jo Cox,” he stated.
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Bennett’s messages started after he was “caught up” in on-line right-wing propaganda throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, the courtroom heard.
Showing for the defence, Caroline Salvatore stated Bennett had no earlier convictions, introduced as being neurodivergent and was “largely socially isolated”.
“He was encouraged to become incensed at various issues and he found their phrases became part of his vocabulary,” she stated.
Ms Salvatore stated Bennett didn’t act till after his father died in 2023, which was a “triggering event”.
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Bennett despatched Sir Sadiq “angry and poisonous rhetoric,” the choose stated. Pic: PA
“The contents of your communications to all three was utterly deplorable, foul and abusive,” Decide Smith stated. “Saturated in hate and intolerance and shamelessly racist and offensive.
“Your indignant, toxic and hateful rhetoric discloses the actual disdain you held for ethnic minorities, concentrating on particularly Muslims and immigrants in your abusive tirades.”
A prosecution request for restraining orders to be put in place for 5 years was granted by the choose.
