My name is Sally Metcalfe & I am an innocent woman

HER OPEN LETTER TO BRITAIN

JAILED Corrie character Sally Metcalfe has sent a letter from her prison cell thanking Daily Star readers for trying to free her.

She wrote: “I thank each and every one of you who believe in me. I will not be silenced. I will not go quietly into the night.”

Millions of fans were left fuming when favourite Sally (played by Sally Dynevor) was jailed for fraud this week. Viewers know the courts got the verdict wrong. The former mayor of Weatherfield is innocent and has been framed by a sneaky con artist. Your Daily Star has mounted a campaign to free her and even called on

Prime Minister Theresa

May to break off from the

Brexit talks to

intervene. Last night, tearful Sally was allowed to send a message to her supporters.

Sally said she has been touched by everyone’s concern and refuses to go down without a fight.

Sally wrote: “I am an innocent woman. I realise the story’s caught on like wildfire because of the whole ‘how the mighty have fallen’ angle.

“People throw the term

‘role model’ around a lot. But just because I’m a highachieving, go-getting ex mayor of Weatherfield with a gas-fired barbecue and a roomy conservatory, doesn’t mean I don’t have feelings.

“Deep down, I’m an ordinary, boring, run of the mill person. Just like you.

“I wanted to thank you, the

Great British Public for all the kind letters I’ve received while unjustly incarcerated. I know we’ve all got a lot on our plates atm with Brexit and everything, so your kind words mean the world to me.

“If I was writing this on paper rather than a computer, you’d be able to see some smudged words where my tears of gratitude have dripped on to the page. But that’s the electronic age we live in.

“I will not be silenced. I will not go quietly into the night.

“And I thank each and every one of you who believe in me.”

Sally faces being behind bars at Christmas if she is not freed.

She is the innocent victim of crooked businessman Duncan Radfield (played by Nicholas Gleaves) who she handed a council grant for a fake charity.

It has been compared to the “Free The Weatherfield One” story in 1998 when Deirdre Rachid (played by the late Anne Kirkbride) was wrongly jailed for mortgage and credit card fraud.

At the time, PM Tony Blair said he would call on his Home Secretary Jack Straw to look into the matter.

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