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| Chilling: Leaked emails reveal a libel dispute in the Croydon Labour group |
He’s been billed by the Labour party as the candidate who
can ‘put
the fear of God into people’, and by the looks of these leaked emails, Waddon
candidate Andrew Pelling is living up to his reputation.
So when lifelong Labour supporter Anthony Miller wrote a
piece on an incident involving the former Tory’s ex-wife, he soon found himself locked in a libel
dispute in a string of chilling emails leaked to The Croydon Gazette.
The emails, which were sent by Steven Downes, editor of the
Inside Croydon blog, of which Pelling is special correspondent, warn Mr Miller
that he will now have to live with the consequences of his actions. Pelling,
now a high
profile Labour Parliamentary candidate is clearly copied into the
correspondence but does not respond to the mail chain.
The emails expose the bizarre and powerful influence Mr
Pelling has over Mr Downes, a former journalist turned blogger, who is not
thought to possess any formal legal qualifications.
The revelations follow a string of disclosures in the
Croydon local press that the Labour group is ‘in
turmoil’ and tearing itself apart.
Mr Miller refused to comment on the emails when approached by the Croydon Gazette.
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