Viscount’s son convicted of racial abuse

An heir to the Portman property empire has been convicted of racially abusing an anti-Semitism campaigner. Piers Portman, 50, also described his Jewish wife as a ‘greedy, grasping, thieving and lying criminal manipulator of the system’. The son of Edward, 9th Viscount Portman of Bryanston, called Campaign Against Antisemitism CEO Gideon Falter ‘Jewish scum’ at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on 14 June 2018. The Harrow-educated aristocrat’s family owns the Portman Estate, which covers 110 acres of Marylebone in West London, including…