Asolicitor who bombarded a legal blogger with messages containing 'aggressive threats of litigation and uninvited sexual innuendo’ has been convicted of stalking.
Andrew Jonathan Milne, 63, admitted in 1986, was convicted of stalking without fear after a seven-day trial at Stratford magistrates’ court. He had denied the charge but District Judge Towell found that his conduct towards court blogger Daniel Cloake in 2024, which included sending around 120 emails to Cloake, leaving two voicemails on his birthday, sending him a book and ‘loitering outside’ Cloake’s home, amounted to harassment.
The judge gave her verdict following a full day of closing submissions yesterday. She highlighted evidence contradicting Milne's claim of an intimate relationship with Cloake, adding: ‘Your account there was a relationship is wholly contrary to the content of the emails you sent.’
The judge said: ‘Mr Cloake asserts there was no form of relationship beyond exchanging of pleasantries at court hearings and two lunches at the Law Society. I accept Mr Cloake’s evidence that was the extent of his interactions with you.’