Shamed viscount drops appeal against conviction

  The viscount who offered £5,000 for someone to ‘accidentally’ run over Brexit campaigner Gina Miller has dropped his appeal against conviction but still disputes his sentence. Rhodri Colwyn Phillips, 50, was jailed for 12 weeks last month for posing a series of offensive Facebook rants. The 4th Viscount St Davids said immigrants should ‘go back to their stinking jungles’ and offered £2,000 to ‘carve up’ an African dad of eight. In his Facebook posts only four days after Ms…