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Kieran Kyle said Kemi Badenoch would get "a bullet in her head" if she went to Belfast, the court heard

  • Published9 November 2026, 12:18 GMT
Updated 22 minutes ago

A man has been jailed for sending the Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch emails threatening to shoot her dead.

Ex-teacher Kieran Kyle sent three emails on 2 May to the Tory party leader in which he made racist references and claimed to have been in the IRA, the court heard.

The 43-year-old, from Gillingham in Kent, pleaded guilty on 22 September at Westminster Magistrates' Court to two counts of sending communications of an indecent or offensive nature.