Vile cards councillor set to be sentenced

A FORMER Liverpool councillor who sent a series of vile cards to a former colleague after they fell out over a licensing issue is to be sentenced today.

- By DAVID HUMPHREYS

Between October 2023 and August this year, Gerard Woodhouse sent items in the post to Christine Banks in a campaign of harassment.

Woodhouse (inset), 62, of Mayfair Close, pleaded guilty at Liverpool and Knowsley Magistrates Court in October. The former Labour councillor sent cards to the home address of Mrs Banks, herself a member of the local authority, which were described as containing "insults and threats."

She told the ECHO how she had to hide around 100 cards from her family in a bid to protect them. Woodhouse will now reappear before magistrates to learn of his punishment.