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.

"This is horrifying. It beggars belief that this can have been allowed to have been put up on this site and stayed there for so long, Miller told Sunday Mirror'.

"There is of course no excuse for any individual to resort to inciting murder, but it shows how bad things have got. Certain extremist politicians and commentators must take their share of responsibility and recognise that incendiary language and continually ratcheting up the stakes has consequences, she said.

A GoFundMe spokesperson said: We are particularly sorry for any distress this caused Gina Miller."