Jayda Fransen

Jayda Fransen (born 1986) is the former deputy head of the neo-fascist group Britain First. She is also a former member of the English Defense League and has been convicted of religious harassment against Muslims multiple times. She is also believed to be partially responsible for radicalising the Finsbury Park attacker, Darren Osbourne. She ran in the 2014 Rochester and Strood by-election, during which she was beaten by Mark Reckless of UKIP. She also wrote a Facebook post supporting Britain First leader Paul Golding during the 2016 London Mayoral election, during which she said she would not rest until "every traitor [Remainer] is...at the end of a rope". Her Twitter account was suspended in 2017 after she used it to incite hatred against Muslims in violation of the site's user policy. She subsequently joined the social networking site Gab and urged others to do the same. In 2018 she was sentenced to 36 weeks in jail for shouting abuse at a Muslim and approaching an address she believed to belong to a Muslim defendant in a rape case. She has since been released and recently stepped down as deputy leader.