A "vile" race hate extremist who threatened to kill Jeremy Corbyn and called for Muslims to be put on bonfires has been jailed for two years.

In a series of online posts between March and August last year, Jonathan Jennings, 34, from Carmarthenshire, South Wales, targeted Muslims, public figures and the Jewish community.

Among the messages posted on a social networking website known as GAB, Jennings called for Muslims to be forcibly sterilised, suggested Hitler was born 100 years too soon and said all Muslims should be gassed.

A jury at Swansea Crown Court heard he repeatedly called for the murder of all Muslims and told his readers it would be a "good idea" to have a "bomb a mosque day" which had been suggested by another extremist who was later jailed.

Jennings, who had admitted 10 counts of publishing material intended to stir up religious hatred and sending material with the intention of causing distress and anxiety, also threatened public figures.


He called for anti-Brexit campaigner Gina Miller to be executed as a traitor in March 2017.

A few months later he said if Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn became prime minister he would be first in line to "Jo Cox him" referring to the murder of the MP by a right-wing extremist in June 2016.

Soon after last year's bombings in Manchester, Jennings changed his profile name to "Muslim Slayer" and described a racist attacker who kicked a pregnant woman in the stomach, causing her to lose her baby, as a "national hero".

Sentencing Jennings, Judge Geraint Walters said his comments were "vile, venomous and words which would rightly outrage any decent human being".

The court heard Jennings had a number of church-going friends, prompting the judge to tell him it "shows how truly mixed up your views really are".

Jennings ignored warnings from police to stop after a member of the public reported some of his comments and when told that officers wanted to interview him, he threw a brick at the police station in Ammanford.

In a series of YouTube videos, Jennings, who has a degree from Lampeter University, portrayed himself as a plain-speaking commentator.

Thomas Scapens, prosecuting, said: "In his police interview he said it was his moral right to post these comments".

David Singh, defending explained that Jennings had been suffering from Asperger syndrome from a young age but at an earlier hearing, Judge Keith Thomas said a psychologist's report had not diagnosed any particular mental disorder.