Former Brexit Party candidate posted ‘bullet in head’ tweet

A former Brexit Party candidate wrote a ‘bullet in the head’ tweet following another posting about Labour MP Dawn Butler on the social media platform, a court heard. Stephen Peddie, 61, was a prospective parliamentary candidate for the Kent constituency of Tonbridge and Malling in 2019 before quitting in protest of Nigel Farage’s election strategy. Social commentator Toby Young had posted on Twitter about the Labour Brent MP allegedly using taxpayers’ money to fit a Jacuzzi-style bath in a north…