A WETHERAL woman used two public websites – including one regularly used by hospital workers in Carlisle – to make false and deeply upsetting claims about her neighbours.

The Cumberland Infirmary NHS worker who was the victim of one series of upsetting messages posted by 58-year-old Diane France told police that she had suffered what amounted to a “public character assassination.”

She spoke of the stress she had been through because she lives next door to somebody who had shown her such “malicious intent.”

The defendant, of St Constantine’s Way, Wetheral, was due to face a trial at Carlisle’s Rickergate court following her earlier denials of two offences. But she entered guilty pleas before the trial got underway.

She admitted harassment without violence and a public order offence which involved her displaying a message that was threatening, abusive and insulting.

Andy Travis, prosecuting, said the two victims live in the same row of terraced houses where France lives, in houses either side of the defendant.

Outlining the first harassment offence, Mr Travis said it happened on November 15 last year when France posted several offensive messages on the NHS Facebook page which was routinely used by workers at The Cumberland Infirmary.

That was where the first victim worked at the time, said Mr Travis.

“It’s an open page, from what I can find, and anybody can have access to it,” said the prosecutor. Mr Travis went on to outline the various untrue allegations that France...

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