A MAN has been charged with sending racially aggravated messages directed at Brexit court campaigner Gina Miller.

Rhodri Colwyn Philipps, 50, from Knightsbridge, was yesterday charged with sending malicious communications with racially aggravated factors, the Metropolitan Police said.

Ms Miller, 51, complained of receiving a series of racist messages following her decision to spearhead the legal challenge, which resulted in an historic Supreme Court defeat for the Government over Brexit in January.

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The Guyana-born mother-of-three became the face of the first successful legal battle against Brexit, but said in a radio interview that it had resulted in her becoming “apparently the most hated woman in Britain”.

Philipps was arrested by officers from the Met’s Operation Falcon on January 25 after a complaint was received concerning alleged threats made online against a 51-year-old woman.

Rhodri Philipps is also known as the 4th Viscount St Davids and holds the titles Lord Strange of Knockin, Lord Hungerford, and Lord de Moleyns. 

He has been bailed to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on April 4.

Ms Miller, a partner in an investment management firm, was the lead claimant in the legal fight to get Parliament to vote on whether the UK could start the process of leaving the EU.

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By a majority of eight to three, the Supreme Court ruled that Prime Minister Theresa May could not trigger Article 50 without an Act of Parliament authorising her to do so.

In an interview last month Ms Miller said the threats she had been receiving were not just from “keyboard warriors” on social media, but people “who have taken the time to address an envelope, put a first class stamp on, walk down the street, put it in a postbox.”