A
blogger will go on trial today accused of harassing
Labour MP Luciana Berger by posting a series of anti-Semitic rants on the
internet.
Joshua
Bonehill-Paine, 23, of Yeovil, Somerset, faces a four-day trial at the Old
Bailey over five “defamatory and insulting articles” on websites.
He
has pleaded not guilty to a single charge of racially aggravated harassment of
the 35-year-old Liverpool Wavertree MP.
Between
October 26 2014 and January 25 2015, Bonehill-Paine allegedly issued posts
which “demonstrated towards Luciana Berger hostility based on her membership or
presumed membership of a particular racial group, namely Jews”.
The
trial is being heard by senior judge Mr Justice Spencer. Prosecutor Philip
Stott is expected to outline the case before the first witnesses give evidence.
