A Covid conspiracy theorist who won a county court judgment against Boris Johnson for defaming her is an is an eccentric loner , her neighbours said today - as Downing Street had the claim struck out.
Yvonne Hobbs, 59, lives in the picturesque Leicestershire village of Ashby Parva, on the outskirts of Lutterworth, on a smallholding where she keeps alpacas.
She used the Online Civil Money Claims service to state that the Prime Minister owed her £535 in a case first revealed by Private Eye which stunned Westminster.
But Downing Street today said it had the judgment struck out, prompting questions about how it managed to be made in the first place.
Boris Johnson has been hit with a court judgment for an unpaid debt after a Covid conspiracy theorist bizarrely claimed he had repeatedly slandered her.
Official records revealed yesterday that the Prime Minister was being chased for failing to settle a £535 bill.
It initially appeared to be a fresh embarrassment for Mr Johnson, who is already facing an investigation by the Westminster watchdog over who paid for his £15,000 holiday to Mustique and three separate inquiries into who funded the lavish redecoration of his Downing Street flat.
But last night details obtained by the Daily Mail show that the potentially damaging court order relates to an unlikely allegation of slander.
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