Vile Twitter troll behind bars after sending death threats to MP Luciana Berger
Sick John Nimmo, 28, sent anti-semitic messages to Miss Berger and previously targeted a feminist campaigner
A TWITTER troll is behind bars after sending death threats to Labour MP Luciana Berger - warning her: "You are going to get it like Jo Cox did."
Sick John Nimmo, 28, sent anti-semitic messages to Miss Berger - including another saying: "You better watch your (sic) back Jewish scum."
He appeared before South Tyneside magistrates court on Tuesday and said he intended to plead guilty to sending a malicious communication.
Labour MP Jo, 41, was stabbed and shot dead as she arrived for a constituency surgery at a library in Birstall, West Yorks., last month.
The mum-of-two's funeral will take place tomorrow.
Vile Nimmo has previously been jailed for targeting feminist campaigner Caroline Criado-Perez.
Nimmo, from South Shields, Tyne & Wear, was sentenced to eight weeks in 2014 after he admitted sending menacing tweets.
Jobless Nimmo tweeted Miss Criado-Perez: "Ya not that gd looking to rape u be fine" and "I will find you".
Ms Criado-Perez was targeted after she launched a social media campaign over the Bank of England's move to cut social reformer Elizabeth Fry from the £5 note in favour of Sir Winston Churchill.
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Nimmo also targeted Labour MP Stella Creasy, who supported the campaign.
He called her a "dumb blond b****" and said: "The things I cud do to u."
Last night, a Northumbria Police spokesman said: "We working closely with Merseyside Police after reports of malicious communication to a Merseyside MP.
"John Nimmo has been charged with send letter/communication causing anxiety and or distress.
"He appeared at South Tyneside Magistrates court where an indicated plea of guilty was given.
"He was remanded in custody."
It is not the first time Miss Berger has been targeted by trolls online.
In 2014 Nazi nut Garron Helm, 21, admitted sending an offensive, indecent or obscene message to the MP and was jailed for four weeks.
He was ordered to pay an £80 victim surcharge after the judge at Liverpool Magistrates' Court upgraded the offence to one considered racially motivated.
Miss Berger said the sentence "sent out a clear message".
She said: "Hate crime is not tolerated in our country.
"I hope this case serves as an encouragement to others to report hate crime whenever it rears its ugly head."