BREAKING NEWS: Waltham Forest councillor found guilty of smearing rival (From East London and West Essex Guardian Series)
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BREAKING NEWS: Waltham Forest councillor found guilty of smearing rival
3:39pm Friday 21st September 2007 in
LABOUR Cllr Miranda Grell has been found guilty on two counts of making false statements under the Representation of the People Act 1983 - the first case of its kind in Britain.
She was alleged to have claimed during last year's Waltham Forest local election that Liberal Democrat rival, then Cllr Barry Smith, was a paedophile.
Announcing his findings of guilt this afternoon at Waltham Forest Magistrates Court, District Judge John Woollard fined Grell £500 on each of the two charges and ordered her to pay £3,000 costs.
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Cllr Miranda Grell outside Waltham Forest Magistrates Court
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