Gillingham man jailed over racist Kemi Badenoch death threats

A man has been jailed for sending the Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch emails threatening to shoot her dead.

Ex-teacher Kieran Kyle sent three emails on 2 May to the Tory party leader in which he made racist references and claimed to have been in the IRA, the court heard.

The 43-year-old, from Gillingham in Kent, pleaded guilty on 22 September at Westminster Magistrates’ Court to two counts of sending communications of an indecent or offensive nature.

Kyle was sentenced to 20 weeks in prison at the same court on Monday.

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