Far-left MP Claudia Webbe survived in hopes of facing an automatic recall petition after her sentence was reduced for molesting a woman.
Webbe was elected Labor MP for Leicester East in 2019, but withdrew from the left after Michelle Merritt, who claimed to be a left-wing politician, had molested her rival love interest, who threatened to attack her with acid.
Webbe was found guilty of threatening in November, but an appeal did not overturn his conviction, though Judge Deborah Taylor said the court has now determined that the lawmaker did not threaten with acid.
The judge said Merritt had threatened to release her nude photos and made a series of 17 silent phone calls with the woman, but that it was “behavior tantamount to harassment”.
But the court reduced the 10-week weak probation initially given to simple community service, and the judge found that Merritt had lied to the court that she was just friends with her boyfriend Webbe, despite the discussion of text messages. for sex, in addition to buying a sex toy for £120, Time reports.
The sentence reduction means that the far left MP will not face an automatic recall petition, which will put his fate as a politician back in the hands of the East Leicester voters.
After the court refused to withdraw his sentence, Webbe said: “I have never threatened violence and never will. I am very disappointed that my partner and Michelle Merritt got in touch amid the Covid pandemic.
“I was scared and bored by their behavior. However, this fear and frustration cannot and should not be interpreted as harassment.”
Left-wing MP Claudia Webbe was released on a deferred sentence in what she denounced as a “white court” after being found guilty of harassment, including acid threat https://t.co/bSmTDR1Xfc
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The left-wing Labor Party, which removed Webbe from the parliamentary party, that is, sitting as an independent in the House of Commons, urged Webbe to resign.
A Labor spokesperson said: “The allegations in this case are very serious. Labor rightly expects elected representatives to maintain the highest standards at all times.
“Mrs Webbe must resign now so that the people of East Leicester can get the representation they deserve.”
Webbe, who also replaced the controversial Keith Vaz as a constituency MP, previously blamed the alleged institutional racism in the judiciary for his original decision.
The MP described herself as “a black woman facing a white system and white prosecutors in a white courtroom” and said she was “intentionally targeted because I was weak.”
“I knew firsthand that institutions of sexism and racism are being used by the media to discredit black women,” she said.
Despite his salary as an MP puts Webbe in the top one percentile, the MP has a long history of far-left rhetoric, as he previously believed the wealthy had to be “eliminated” to fix climate change. world. workers. .
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