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 News By Staff reporter
Cllr Miranda Grell outside Waltham Forest Magistrates Court
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.
