Ex-Labour MP Claudia Webbe loses appeal against conviction for harassing a love rival

Former Labour MP Claudia Webbe has misplaced her enchantment towards her conviction for harassing a love rival.

Webbe, who represents her Leicester East constituency as an unbiased after being expelled from the occasion, focused Michelle Merritt, 59, between September 2018 and April 2020.

MP Claudia Webbe arrives at Southwark Crown Court docket, south London, the place she is interesting towards her conviction on one depend of harassment.

Aaron Chown

Prosecutors stated the 18-month harassment marketing campaign was pushed by “obsession” and “jealousy” over her boyfriend Lester Thomas’s relationship with govt assistant Ms Merritt.

The sufferer informed how Webbe branded her a “slag” who “must be acid” and threatened to disclose bare pictures to her household in a string of telephone calls.

Webbe, a former adviser to the Nationwide Police Chiefs’ Council on firearms, was discovered responsible of harassment by Chief Justice of the Peace Paul Goldspring and handed a 10-week suspended jail sentence following a trial at Westminster Magistrates’ Court docket final yr.

On Thursday, following an enchantment listening to at Southwark Crown Court docket, she was once more discovered responsible by Choose Deborah Taylor and two magistrates.