Corbyn ally is ‘fantasist’ who questioned Jo Cox’s murder
JEREMY Corbyn is under pressure to ditch an ally who questioned whether the Manchester Arena bombing and Jo Cox’s murder really happened.
Far-Left Momentum activist Mandy Richards has been selected as Labour’s parliamentary candidate for the key marginal of Worcester, despite having 14 restraining orders from the courts and a history of being a conspiracy theorist.
Ms Richards, a teacher and youth justice case worker from Hackney, has been photographed with Mr Corbyn and other leading Left wing figures including Owen Jones.
Among the conspiracy theories she has expressed on Twitter is an implication that the Manchester Arena bomb was invented.
She posted messages asking why there was no damage photographed including: “Can news agencies, police or anyone else for that matter explain why still no image/footage of physical damage at Manchester arena?”
She described the murder of Labour MP Jo Cox as an “incident conveniently bereft of evidence”.
She also said the death of Sister Sledge singer Joni Sledge was part of a plot saying: “How many more shock celebrity deaths before high incidence called into question?”
And she posted a video suggesting footage from the Westminster terror attack was dishonestly edited. Ms Richards is currently subject to 14 civil restraining orders because of vexatious claims she has made against a series of people including MI5, the British Army, Thames Water, Hackney Council, her GP, the freeholder of her flat and even shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott who gave evidence against her in court.
She has accused organisations and individuals of putting her under surveillance, tampering with her car, bicycle, mail, breaking into her home and failing to stop alleged attempts to poison her.
sacked
Last night former Labour MP Mike Foster, who represented Worcester from 1997 to 2010, said Ms Richards should be sacked.
James Cleverly, deputy chairman of the Conservative Party said: “It says something about the workings of the current Labour Party that a fantasist and conspiracy theorist can become, and remain, a selected parliamentary candidate.”
Last night Ms Richards said she was a “victim of domestic harassment” and that she was “vindicated by the evidence uncovered and by the Judge’s recommendations that the processes in question should be reviewed given that they could well have been open to abuse.”