{"id":184523,"date":"2024-11-28T21:21:16","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T21:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/28\/louise-haigh-admits-pleading-guilty-to-2014-criminal-offence\/"},"modified":"2024-11-28T21:21:16","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T21:21:16","slug":"louise-haigh-admits-pleading-guilty-to-2014-criminal-offence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/28\/louise-haigh-admits-pleading-guilty-to-2014-criminal-offence\/","title":{"rendered":"Louise Haigh admits pleading guilty to 2014 criminal offence"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Transport Secretary Louise Haigh has admitted pleading guilty to a criminal offence relating to a police investigation over a mobile phone she claimed was stolen.<\/p>\n

In a statement, Haigh said she told police she had lost her phone during a mugging on a night out in 2013 but later found it had not been taken.<\/p>\n

She said it was a “genuine mistake” but had been advised by a lawyer “not to comment” during a police interview. The police then referred the case to the Crown Prosecution Service, she said.<\/p>\n

She said she pleaded guilty to making a false report to police at magistrates’ court six months before becoming an MP in the 2015 election, and received a discharge – the “lowest possible outcome”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A discharge is a type of sentence given to someone who is guilty of an offence but where the court decides not to impose a significant punishment.<\/p>\n

Whitehall sources have told the BBC that the transport secretary declared her discharge on appointment to the shadow cabinet when the Labour Party was in opposition.<\/p>\n

In a statement, Haigh said: \u201cIn 2013 I was mugged while on a night out. I was a young woman and the experience was terrifying.<\/p>\n

“I reported it to the police and gave them a list of what I believed had been taken – including a work mobile phone that had been issued by my employer.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome time later I discovered that the mobile in question had not been taken. In the interim I had been issued with another work phone.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe original work device being switched on triggered police attention and I was asked to come in for questioning. <\/p>\n

“My solicitor advised me not to comment during that interview and I regret following that advice.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe police referred the matter to the CPS and I appeared before magistrates’ court.<\/p>\n

“Under the advice of my solicitor I pleaded guilty – despite the fact this was a genuine mistake from which I did not make any gain. The magistrates accepted all of these arguments and gave me the lowest possible outcome – a discharge – available.\u201d<\/p>\n

Louise Haigh is a former Special Constable, a volunteer police officer with full powers of arrest who served with the Metropolitan Police until 2011.<\/p>\n

The BBC has asked the Department for Transport to clarify the offence she pleaded guilty to and whether the discharge was conditional, or unconditional.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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