His murder has led to a worldwide outpouring of grief and anger, but Charlie Kirk’s death inspires little sympathy from British comedienne Gina Yashere.

The actress, who has won her big break in America with a role in forthcoming television series Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, claims that the free-speech campaigner ‘got what [he] had advocated for’ because he opposed gun control.

Kirk, 31, was married with two young children. He was shot dead while speaking at an event in Utah last week and was a prominent ally of President Donald Trump.

Yashere, 51, who was born in north London and rose to fame on panel shows such as Mock The Week, accused Kirk of preaching hate, claiming that he was ‘xenophobic, transphobic, homophobic, racist, misogynist and sexist’.

In an online rant, she declared: ‘Charlie Kirk got what Charlie Kirk had advocated for. He wanted more guns on the streets. He didn’t mind a few kids being shot to death in their classrooms or the odd Democrat being murdered in their home.’

A prominent Christian, Kirk would, however, be going to hell, claimed Yashere. ‘I don’t believe in heaven and hell. But just in case there is, Charlie Kirk is going down there. And if he does, I hope he gets dropped off by a black pilot.’

This was a reference to a comment Kirk made last year, expressing his concerns about ‘positive discrimination’ in favour of non-white pilots: ‘If I see a black pilot, I’m going to be, like, boy, I hope he’s qualified.’

Yashere has said she left Britain to escape being treated as ‘second best’. She said moving to the US gave her the freedom to embrace her identity as a lesbian: ‘I’d never come out publicly in England, because I didn’t want to give them something else to box me in.’