THE deputy leader of the Labour Party has lent her support to a Bradford MP after a woman was jailed for sending her malicious emails and perverting the course of justice.

Sundas Alam, 30, of Princeville Street, Lidget Green, Bradford, pleaded guilty to three charges of sending malicious emails and one of perverting justice on the third day of her trial at York Crown Court on January 14.

She was jailed for three-and-a-half years for the offences.

Angela Rayner, deputy leader of Labour, send her support to Ms Shah via social media.

She tweeted: "This must have been so terrifying. Sending my love, Naz Shah."

 

The Recorder of York, Judge Sean Morris jailed Alam for sending five “disgraceful, terrifying and shameful” emails in the same evening to her MP.

Ms Shah and her family had to flee their home in the middle of the night after Alam made threats including “do you want a bullet through your window or a rifle in your head”, a York jury heard last October.

Judge Morris said three people were wrongly arrested from their beds by armed police for sending the emails after Alam spoofed their emails to send the threats.

She let them give evidence before changing her plea to guilty on the third day of her trial to three charges of sending malicious emails and one of perverting justice.

The judge said she had planned that to distress one of the three, her former line manager at work.