Woman jailed for attributing false homophobic remarks to DUP’s Jim Wells
South Down MLA says he has no sympathy for woman who lied to police
DUP member Jim Wells. Photograph: NI Assembly/PA
A Dungannon woman who maliciously lied to police attributing homophobic remarks to then health minister Jim Wells in order “to get” him, has been jailed for three months.
Jailing 49-year-old Dorothy Gardner at Downpatrick Magistrates Court, Deputy District Judge Neil Rafferty said he had “thought long and hard” whether he could suspend the jail term, but that “because of the aggravating features that I have outlined, I do not think it would be appropriate in this case to suspend the sentence”.