Jail for anti-vaxxer who targeted Boris Johnson and Chris Whitty

An anti-vaxxer who posted messages on Telegram encouraging his 26,000-strong ‘audience’ to adopt IRA tactics in response to lockdown restrictions was jailed for five years. Patrick Ruane, 55, was a member of two large Telegram groups named: ‘The Resistance UK’ and ‘The Great Reopening’, containing around 8,000 and 18,000 people respectively. Ruane rallied a ‘kill squad’ to shoot people involved in the Covid-19 vaccine rollout and burn ‘Big Pharma’ to the ground. He encouraged violence towards then Prime Minister Boris…

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