Shamed MP Claudia Webbe has today had her sentence for threatening a love rival reduced after a court found that her former partner Lester Thomas was having a sexual relationship with Michelle Merritt which prompted the offending text messages.
Webbe was urged to quit her £84,000-a-year taxpayer-funded post today after an appeal upheld her conviction for harassing Merritt – who she called a ‘s**g’ while threatening to leak her nude photos – but a judge reduced her sentence so she will now…