Nuisance caller who menaced pro Israel MP walks free

A nuisance caller who repeatedly phoned pro-Israel Tory MP Mike Freer to say he was ‘coming for him’ has walked free from court. The MP for Finchley and Golders Green, 63, decided to retire front-line politics after receiving menacing calls from James Phillips, 46, on 31 January. Phillips admitted malicious communications and assaulting a police officer when he appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court. He was handed a 14 month community order and made subject of a restraining order for the…