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A man has been arrested over an attempt to crowdfund the murder of anti-Brexit campaigner Gina Miller.

Last year we revealed how a troll using the name Jeff Blogger wanted to raise £10,000 “to hire a contract killer to kill Gina Miller: The Traitor of Democracy”.

This week, the Northumbria force confirmed a 52-year-old had been detained on suspicion of making malicious communications. He has now been released under investigation.

The crowdfund page was published on gofundme.com and had been live for six months when the Sunday Mirror alerted authorities in October 2019. It has since been removed.

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At the time, businesswoman Miller, 54, said: “It beggars belief that this [was] allowed to have been put up on this site and stayed there for so long.”

At the time, businesswoman Miller, 54, said: “It beggars belief that this [was] allowed to have been put up on this site and stayed there for so long.”