Man found guilty of threatening ‘traitor’ Labour MP with noose

Lance O'Connor confronted Hove MP Peter Kyle outside parliament with makeshift gallows

A man has been found guilty of threatening a Labour MP after he held a makeshift gallows with a noose outside parliament and said: This is what we do to traitors."

Lance O'Connor, 57, called out the name of the Hove MP, Peter Kyle, as he walked across Parliament Square in central London on 20 October last year, Westminster magistrates court heard on Tuesday.