UK police probes crowdfunding page targeting anti-Brexit campaigner
The Scotland Yard has launched an investigation into a crowdfunding page set up online seeking funds to hire a contract killer for Gina Miller, the prominent Indian-origin anti-Brexit campaigner who has won two major landmark court rulings over Parliament supremacy.
The 53-year-old investment fund manager, born Gina Nadira Singh in British Guiana (now Guyana) to Guyana's former Attorney-General Doodnauth Singh, was targeted on a Go Fund Me website page, which has since been taken down.
"Officers from the Met's South West CID team are currently investigating a report of threats to kill, a Metropolitan Police statement said.
"GoFundMe" was set up as a crowdfunding platform as a way for people to raise funds for worthy causes.
But the one targeting Miller called for donations so that 10,000 pounds could be raised to to hire a contract killer to kill Gina Miller. The Traitor of Democracy".
It had reportedly been online since April this year before being taken down recently.
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