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On May the 4th 2006, residents of Leyton ward, in the London Borough of Waltham Forest, elected local girl Miranda Grell their local Labour councillor.

On the 21st of September 2007 at Waltham Forest Magistrate’s Court, however, Miranda was convicted of two offences against the Representation of the People Act 1983. The judge ruled that she won her Leyton ward council seat by calling the Liberal Democrat councillor she beat in the poll a ‘paedophile’. The conviction was upheld at Miranda’s Grell’s legal appeal, at Snaresbrook Crown Court, on the 30th of November 2007.

Miranda and everyone who knows her are now utterly devastated by both these verdicts. People who campaigned with Miranda in 2006 remember nothing but a happy, vibrant and exciting local election campaign that energised the Leyton community and parts of the ward that had been abandoned for years.

Miranda Grell maintains her innocence and, in the light of the November appeal decision, we are now taking soundings and legal advice on the best way for Miranda to fully and finally clear her name.

We hope you will continue to support Miranda’s and Leyton ward’s fight for justice.