A Ukip supporter who sent threatening emails to six MPs was handed a nine-week suspended jail sentence yesterday after pleading guilty.

David Hall from Wolverhampton sent one email to Labour MP David Lammy as a "friendly warning."

It read: "As you attack the White population of Britain in your aims to gain Black Supremacy in this country, remember what happened to Jo Cox.

"I AM NOT ONE OF THEM but there are those out there who would like to see you suffer the same fate. Be careful!!"

It was signed "DW Hall ( a well wisher)."

Labour MP Ms Cox was murdered in her constituency by far-right  extremist Thomas Mair in June 2016.

Mr Hall sent emails to Tory MPs Nicky Morgan, Dominic Grieve, Anna Soubry and Heidi Allen last December in the wake of a Brexit debate in Parliament, saying they deserved to hang for "treachery."

He also sent an email to Wolverhampton MP Eleanor Smith, calling for her to be put on "the first banana boat" to the "jungle clearing you came from."

Mr Hall was cautioned for threatening behaviour in 2011 after getting involved in an altercation while putting political leaflets and posters on lampposts near his home.

Former education secretary Ms Morgan said: "MPs are of course subject to robust debate, scrutiny ... challenge, which is what we should be.

"But when things tip over into threats of violence or death, then I think a line has been crossed and I think it's important for the sake of our healthy democracy that these things are challenged."

Mr Hall has also been ordered to complete 25 days of rehabilitation work and pay £735 in costs and a victim surcharge.