A Georgia election worker told jurors that she feared for her life after she received a barrage of racist and threatening messages fuelled by Rudy Giuliani’s false claims that she and her mother had rigged the 2020 election results in the state.

Wandrea Shaye Moss told jurors she seldom leaves her home, suffers from panic attacks and battles nightmares brought on by a barrage of threatening and racist messages.

She sobbed as she told the court that her life was turned upside down by the accusations, though they were quickly debunked by state officials, and recounted changing her appearance to try to hide as Mr Giuliani and other allies of former president Donald Trump used surveillance footage to accuse her and her mother, Ruby Freeman, of committing voter fraud.

The 39-year-old said: “I was afraid for my life. I literally felt like someone going to come and attempt to hang me and there’s nothing that anyone will be able to do about it.”

Her emotional evidence came on the second day of a defamation trial that Mr Giuliani’s lawyer has said could financially ruin the former New York City mayor.

Ms Moss and her mother, Ruby Freeman, are seeking tens of millions of dollars in damages.

Mr Giuliani is preparing to defend himself against criminal charges in a separate case in Georgia over his efforts to keep Mr Trump in power.

He has pleaded not guilty in that criminal case, which accuses him and others of scheming to overturn Donald Trumps’ 2020 election loss in the state of...

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