It was like being back in court when Lee’s killers were jailed

said: “It is difficu difficult to understand why a grieving mother w was dragged through an awful courtroom o ordeal by a fantasist who has already blighte blighted her life.” Spivey’s rantingsranting began the day after Lee was murdered in L London on May 22, 2013. The weirdo was eventually convicted of harassing Lyn and Sara and was given a sixmonth suspende suspended jail sentence in July 2015. This we week Judge Christopher Morgan di dismissed Spivey’s appeal and branded his outpourings as u untrue and malicious. TheT Sunday People approachedappro Spivey at his home and, ap appallingly, he showed no sympat sympathy for his victims’ ordeal. He sa said: “I think they should have appeared in person. I’m the real victim in all this. I’ve been convicted on unsafe evidence.” Offensive though it may seem, the law allows Spivey a fair hearing. His barrister Mohammed Bas Bashir was in an unenviable posit position. He would have breache breached the Bar Council’s code of ethics if h he had refused to act for the defence. But Lyn said: “I wish Spivey had gone to prison for what he has done to my family. At the end of the hearing the judge asked if I wanted to say anything and I publicly told Spivey that he was sick and evil and that he had made life hell for my family.

“I can only imagine that he is so twisted that he wanted to somehow glory in the limelight of a terrible murder that had nothing to do with him. It’s the sickest thing.

“When I went to court it was like being back at the trial when Lee’s killers were jailed for his murder.

Painful

“He tried to say our grief wasn’t genuine but if he had to walk just a mile in our shoes he would know what suffering is all about.”

A judicial source said: “Judges are acutely aware of the need to reduce the painful ordeal witnesses have to go through in cases such as this one, and the option of video links means at least they don’t have to attend court.

“But courts have to balance that with the need to ensure justice is done. Judges cannot comment out of court on cases they hear.

“The legislation for an appeal from a magistrates court to the crown court currently requires that there is a re-hearing.”