Claudia Webbe, MP for Leicester East, was given a suspended prison sentence in November.
An MP has lost an appeal against her conviction for harassing a woman who was having a sexual relationship with her then partner.for harassing Michelle Merritt between September 2018 and April 2020.However the 10-week suspended sentence she received in November was reduced to community service.
The 57-year-old - who represents her constituency as an independent after being expelled from Labour - made numerous calls to Ms Merritt in a campaign of harassment over the course of 18 months. The judge said the court found Webbe had not "made a threat to throw acid over" Ms Merritt but that a string of silent phone calls and threats to reveal naked pictures of her had been "a course of conduct which amounted to harassment".The appeal heard since the trial, Ms Merritt's phone had been examined and downloaded by police, revealing sexual messages between her and Mr Thomas.
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