My cheating barrister husband ‘gave me a sex disease’
A BARRISTER’S wife told a court how her husband gave her herpes after he caught it from his mistress who enjoyed extreme sexual practices.
Katherine Simpson, 49, and husband Jonathan, 48, from Winchester, are accused of stalking the single mother in a bid to hound her out of town after the affair ended.
Mr Simpson has said he was ‘like a crack addict’ who kept going back for more during his fling with the woman, but continued to contact her when it was over, despite being warned to stop by police.
But after a restraining order was made against him, the barrister allegedly began his campaign of humiliation in order to get the woman – whose identity is protected – to drop the order and ‘stay out of Winchester’, which included writing to the father of the woman’s child describing her love of explicit sex acts.
His wife, a property lawyer, is accused of joining the hate campaign after he confessed to his infidelity, describing the other woman as ‘a f****** chav’ and writing letters to people who knew her giving intimate details of her love life.
But yesterday, despite claiming she had contracted herpes as a result of her husband’s affair, she insisted she felt ‘neutral’ towards her love rival and that she was terrified of having any contact with her.
Mrs Simpson told Southwark Crown Court: ‘I was terrified of any contact with this woman. I didn’t want any contact with this woman and I have never wanted any contact with this woman.
‘I feel neutral in many respects about her status. I didn’t want to hurt her, I have never hurt her. I have never showed any revenge in this whole case.’
She claimed she was ‘absolutely devastated and petrified’ when her husband of 20 years was arrested for continuing to contact the woman, adding: ‘I am just a wife and a mother protecting my family, and the thought that he was going to go to a police station and face arrest was unbelievably alarming for a stupid love affair.’
She claimed that the first harassment notice her husband received ‘made him look like some weird stalker’, which made her feel ‘really
‘I am just protecting my family’
really angry’. Mrs Simpson told jurors a psychiatrist was ‘adamant’ that the orders be removed to help her husband and so she started writing letters to people who knew the woman.
She added: ‘I knew I had to do something because I could see immediately after the restraining order was imposed that his health was beginning to decline.
‘My objective was to get these people to communicate with me so that I could go back to the police with evidence they had said that I had to get in order to prove that she had lied in her statement.
‘Then we might see an end to the restraining order and all the fears that went with it. What I didn’t want was to have any contact with her.’
Mrs Simpson claimed to have marked the letters and made it clear that the woman was not to see them.
But David Sapiecha, prosecuting, suggested Mrs Simpson intended for the woman to know about the letters and that she would find them intimidating.
‘I knew I was not allowed to have contact with her – I was not stupid,’ Mrs Simpson replied.
She admitted a number of comments made in the letters, including claims a private investigator had been hired, were simply ‘bluster’ or ‘fiction’. Mrs Simpson told the court she was trying to ‘pro- voke’ and ‘encourage them to communicate’ so that she could try to get the restraining order removed.
Mrs Simpson admitted she had had a drink by the time police came round to speak to her and her husband in a recorded interview.
During the conversation Mrs Simpson repeatedly called the woman a ‘bunny boiler’ and her partner a ‘thug’.
She also claimed it was ‘astonishing that I have not been round her house and kicked her front door down and smashed her face in’.
The Simpsons both deny stalking charges. The trial continues.