Flack’s ex-fiancé in court for harrassing journalist

THE FORMER fiancé of the late TV star Caroline Flack accused MailOnline columnist and GB News presenter Dan Wootton of being a sex offender and a murderer during a campaign of harassment, a court has heard.

A judge heard how Andrew Brady compared Mr Wootton, who is the former executive editor of The Sun newspaper, to convicted sex offender Harvey Weinstein during an online campaign lasting more than two months.

He also posted an explicit picture of himself and invited the journalist to engage in sexual activity, the court heard.

Brady, 31, yesterday pleaded guilty at Sheffield Crown Court to one count of harassment and was told he will be sentenced on Friday for the offence, which carries a maximum prison term of six months.

The defendant, who was remanded in custody, was due to go trial last year but the proceedings had to be halted over legal problems. The court heard on Monday how Brady had agreed to plead guilty to a less serious charge.

Judge Jeremy Richardson QC told Brady: “As I have made clear already, the desire of everybody in this case, including myself, is for you to stop doing what you did. You must move on with your life, it is to be hoped, to sunnier uplands.”

According to the charge read out by the clerk, Brady’s harassment of Mr Wootton took place between February 13 and April 28 last year and included using WhatsApp, Snapchat, Twitter, Instagram, online blogs and YouTube to cause the journalist “alarm and distress”. The maximum sentence for this offence of harassment is six months in prison, the court heard.

The defendant is a former Apprentice and Celebrity Big Brother contestant. He was engaged briefly to Ms Flack, who died in 2020, in 2018.