Jealous MP spared prison for acid threats to woman
Daily Express|November 05, 2021
A FEMALE MP who threatened to throw acid in a woman’s face during a harassment campaign fuelled by jealousy has been spared an immediate jail sentence.
Ryan Hooper
Jealous MP spared prison for acid threats to woman

Claudia Webbe, MP for Leicester East, showed no emotion as she was handed a 10-week jail term, suspended for two years, and 200 hours community service for harassing Michelle Merritt, a friend of her boyfriend Lester Thomas.

Webbe, 56, denied the allegation and said she felt like a “victim” herself due to the amount of abuse she has received on social media.

She was convicted after threatening to leak naked images of Ms Merritt and making a string of phone calls in which she had warned her to “get out of my relationship”. The court heard the pair had never met in person.

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