English Democrat candidate & activist Amy Dalla Mura is standing in Broxtowe, Nottinghamshire, which Anna Soubry has represented since 2010. Amy has now been found guilty of harassing Anna Soubry and banned from campaigning in the constituency.
Westminster Magistrates’ Court was told that the defendant repeatedly targeted the Independent Group for Change candidate and called her a traitor on Live television.
The court heard Dalla Mura, from Hove, attended an event in Parliament on 23 January where Ms Soubry was speaking, repeatedly interrupting her and live streaming the event on her phone. The meeting was eventually abandoned when she refused to stop recording to reports in the court.
The court was also told Dalla Mura approached Ms Soubry in Parliament’s Central Lobby while she was appearing on BBC Newsnight on 14 March, calling her a “traitor” while again filming her.
Emma Arbuthnot, the Chief Magistrate, described Dalla Mura’s behaviour as “oppressive and unacceptable”, with conduct “driven by anger at Soubry’s political views on Brexit”. She said it had also “caused harassment in the sense of alarm and distress”.
The 56-year-old will be sentenced four days after the election but is still standing in the election.
As a condition of bail, she cannot enter Broxtowe and has been banned from contacting or mentioning Ms Soubry on social media.
She will be sentenced on the 16th of December and could face a custodial sentence. This is not the first time someone has been charged with ‘harassing’ Anna Soubry, James Goddard has also been before the courts after a video of him confronting Soubry outside Parliament was pushed by the mainstream media to highlight the ‘aggression’ faced by MPs.
Emma Arbuthnot, the Judge in the case, is married to Baron James Arbuthnot who is a Conservative member of the House of Lords and has numerous defence related jobs. She has been criticised for failing to recuse herself in the Julian Assange case due to a potential conflict of interests with her husbands work. She has also faced accusations of bringing political opinions into court judgements.
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