Posted on 09/30/2011 11:38:47 AM PDT by Stoat
Jurors at Birmingham Crown Court took just over five hours to convict Mrs Hemming, 53, who snatched the cat three days after separating from Liberal Democrat John Hemming.
CCTV footage of the offence, on September 29, shows Mrs Hemming crawling on her hands and knees underneath a window before sneaking into the home of Emily Cox.
Birmingham Yardley MP John Hemming, and his partner Emily Cox
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Mrs Hemming had denied the charge, claiming she could not remember taking the four-month-old kitten, named Beauty.
She told the jury of six men and six women that she had visited the property in Moseley, Birmingham, to deliver post to her husband, MP for Birmingham Yardley.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
MP's wife guilty of stealing love rival's cat - Telegraph
More on this from the BBC:
BBC News - Christine Hemming trial- What drove MP's wife to take cat-
After 29 years of being married to a self-proclaimed "love rat", the wife of Liberal Democrat MP John Hemming snapped.
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Who needs a trial? Anyone can look at the picture and tell she’s guilty.
Hell, lock ‘em both up
So many off-color quips, so little time...
She snatched the pussy?
Judging only by the pictures, I think they’re all guilty.
What the hail is a ‘love rival’?
More like two adulterers and a cuckolded wife!
He’ll probably win re-election!
From Cox no less.
Am I gonna have to separate you two?
[snicker]
Colonel, USAFR
Except for the cat.
What the hail is a ‘love rival’?
More like two adulterers and a cuckolded wife!
He’ll probably win re-election!
Agreed. More from the UK Daily Mail: Mr and Mrs Hemming married in 1981. Yesterday she told the court she found out he was having a relationship with Miss Cox, his then personal assistant, in 2004. ‘Our relationship started to deteriorate. Prior to that he had been open and honest about the relationships he had. ‘I recall I once said there were 26 different people with whom he had liaisons. But at this point we had quite severe arguments about what he was doing.’ Mrs Hemming said she took her marriage vows very seriously but let him see other women because she did not want to destroy her family life. But tension between them increased after she discovered that he had a child with Miss Cox and did not tell her.
Lib Dem MP John Hemming's wife Christine caught on CCTV stealing love rival's kitten - Mail Online
Accused: Christine Hemming, wife of Liberal Democrat MP John Hemming, leaves Birmingham Magistrates Court charged with burglary and theft of a kitten
John Edwards seems almost ethical;)
This POS should not be in any position of trust or power. He is a disgrace. I’m sure he thinks he is ‘upper class’. Not even lower class - degenerate has NO class....neither do his paramours.
Poor child - wonder if there are more?
ROFL
I look forward to the movie...entitled, of course, “White Men Can’t See”.
DAYAM!!!! She looks like she fell out of an ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down.
“She looks like she fell out of an ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down.”
LOL! Actually, I think the whole damned forrest fell on her!
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