An MP has lost an appeal against her conviction for harassing a woman who was having a sexual relationship with her then partner. Claudia Webbe, MP for Leicester East, was given a suspended prison sentence for harassing Michelle Merritt between September 2018 and April 2020.
2018 and 2020. prosecutors say the campaign was driven byjealousy and obsession over her boyfriend s relationship with michelle merritt, who told the court that claudia webbe called her some fairly inappropriate names and had threatened to behave in a pretty difficult way, threatening to reveal embarrassing photographs for example to herfamily. i mjust embarrassing photographs for example to herfamily. i m just reading the details as we get them. claudia webbe is a former adviser to the national police chiefs council on firearms and was found guilty of harassment and handed a ten week suspended jail sentence after a trial at westminster magistrates court last year. she appeared at southwark crown court today but has again been found guilty by a judge
The woman who MP Claudia Webbe threatened with acid during an 18-month harassment campaign was having sex with the politician s partner, a court has heard, as the MP appeals court verdict.
Michelle Merritt, who was harassed by Claudia Webbe over an 18-month period, wanted the MP "to be humiliated"; the appeal continues at Southwark Crown Court.