IN yet another demonstration of how the British ‘justice’ systems persistently fails to deliver any justice at all, a Labour Councillor who embarked on a campaign of terror against a prostitute has been spared jail time.
Keith Moore, who has since stood down from his seats on Goole and East Riding councils, was also a senior member of the board of North Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation trust.
During the Covid-19 pandemic, Moore began visiting a prostitute from a massage Parlour in Hull – becoming ‘obsessed’ with the woman to the point that he demanded she stop seeing other clients.
When realising that his prized prostitute was continuing to meet other punters, Moore, 75, sent her relentless threatening messages before pouring bottles of a highly flammable substance in the doorway of her place of employment.
Yelling to her down the phone ‘Did you like the parcel I left in your doorway?’, Moore then set the facade of the building ablaze before fleeing the scene and making further violent threats to the terrified woman.
Police arrested the disgraced Councillor in October 2021 – adding his name to the many Labour politicians who were either arrested, convicted, or suspended last year alone.
This rogue’s gallery includes MP Claudia Webbe, who shockingly also dodged jail time, despite being found guilty of sending threatening messages to a friend of her partner, and saying that her victim should be attacked with acid.
Despite Mr Moore’s victim now suffering panic attacks and insomnia, Britain’s backward justice system remained true to form – with soft words of condemnation uttered by the judge before the former Councillor was given a suspended sentence.
Making her ruling in court yesterday, 16th January, Judge Sophie McKone said: ‘You became jealous that the complainant you paid for sexual services had other clients.
‘You became obsessed with her and your jealousy and obsession was such that you began a campaign against her and her business to stop her doing her job.
‘The fact that it was an anonymous campaign makes it more sinister because the complainant did not know where it was coming from.’
Moore was sentenced to 250 hours’ unpaid work and ordered to pay £1,000 compensation to his victim.
