Woman’s threat to expose ex as gay in video email

A WOMAN emailed her ex-partner a video of two men having sex and threatened to expose him as being gay after he refused to hand over £20,000 she spent on a house they bought together.

Danielle Fisher, daughter of former Huddersfield Town chairman Terry Fisher, threatened ex-lover Gavin Brammah and his new partner with the footage after their relationship of eight years broke down.

One of the men in the footage resembled him and Fisher claimed that his sexual orientation was one of the reasons they split up.

Her behaviour, including making an oral sex gesture towards the victim from her car, left Mr Brammah feeling extremely distressed.

But Fisher’s solicitor told Kirklees Magistrates’ Court that she was hurt after Brammah, the father of her three children, cheated on her.

Fisher, 32, admitted harassment and persistently making use of a public electronic communications network to cause annoyance, inconvenience or anxiety.

The couple broke up 18 months before and police had been involved during their stormy relationship.

Then on April 15 at 9pm Mr Brammah received an email from Fisher which had a video attached.

Following that he received a further three emails all containing the same video which was sexually explicit and showed two men engaging in oral sex.

In the emails Fisher, of Crosland Road in Crosland Moor, went from talking about money owed to her and childcare issues to her ex’s sexual orientation and alleging that this played a part in their break-up.

Jessica Lister, prosecuting, said: “This is denied by Mr Brammah. The resulting emails from the defendant were threatening to release the email to his friends and family if he didn’t tell them the truth about the relationship.

“The defendant sent this knowing the impact it might have, not just on Mr Brammah but also his relationship and his family.

“The video was sent to his new partner and circulated to a small group of people. The defendant admitted she’d shown it to her father.”

The Huddersfield court was told that one of the men in the video had some resemblance to the victim.

Although he had no tattoos while Mr Brammah does, it would have caused him some distress having to explain that to loved ones, Miss Lister said.

Mr Brammah’s new partner received the video on her work email and there was also an incident outside a school.

Miss Lister said: “Mr Brammah is very distressed. There’s use of threats – including blackmail – to disclose intimate material.

“It’s had a negative effect on his professional and personal life.”

In 2013 Fisher received a suspended jail term at Leeds Crown Court after selling counterfeit brands including Hugo Boss, Juicy Couture and Louis Vuitton at her fashion store Plan B in Lindley.

Brammah also received a suspended jail term for selling fake goods and in July 2016 was jailed for 18 months for VAT fraud.

He submitted false claims for £50,000 while director of Brammah Group Ltd, a clothing wholesale company which Fisher was secretary of.

Marnat Ali, mitigating, explained that she was the victim of domestic violence within their relationship and Brammah was previously jailed for an assault on her.

He said: “The video was made available to her by another person and disclosed that the complainant while in the relationship had been unfaithful.

“Whether he’d been unfaithful with a male or female was of no relevance.

“My client was upset that she was counting on a relationship where she bore three children with this man.

“There was no resolution to financial matters, childcare and a property owned by the complainant which my client paid £20,000 into and is entitled to a proportion of this asset.

“My client accepts that her decision to include the video was wrong but from the outset there was an attempt to resolve matters in an adult way.

“Emotions then got the better of her and she made poor decisions.”

Sentence was adjourned November 22.