I'll sue Baby Reindeer stalker over TV claim that I harassed HER, says MP's widow
The MP’s wife who was a victim of the Baby Reindeer stalker last night said she is considering legal action against Fiona Harvey after her TV interview with Piers Morgan.
Laura Wray, 62, is threatening to sue after Ms Harvey made claims on the show – watched by 13 million – that she was harassed by HER.
It comes after Mrs Wray told The Mail on Sunday that she was plagued by Ms Harvey for four years, which resulted in a court order being granted at Glasgow Sheriff Court in 2002.
Mrs Wray – the widow of former Labour MP Jimmy Wray – said Ms Harvey made damaging statements during the Piers Morgan interview.
On the show, Ms Harvey denied being sacked by Mrs Wray after being given a two-week trial at her law firm in 1997 and claimed she was the one who took a court order out against Mrs Wray.
Last night Mrs Wray said: ‘I felt I was defamed by Ms Harvey on Piers Morgan’s show. Many of the things she said were completely and utterly wrong and I would really like to set the record straight. Now I’m giving consideration to the possibility of raising an action for defamation against Miss Harvey.’
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Laura Wray – the widow of former Labour MP Jimmy Wray – is threatening to sue after Fiona Harvey made claims that she was harassed by HER
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Ms Harvey alongside interviewer Piers Morgan
Last month The Mail on Sunday told how Mrs Wray was shocked to see her stalker portrayed in the character Martha on the hit Netflix show Baby Reindeer.
The series – which has amassed more than 22 million viewers in 30 countries – is based on the real-life experience of Scots comedian Richard Gadd, who plays Donny Dunn.
In the first episode, Martha walks into the pub where he works and boasts of being a hotshot lawyer though, inexplicably, a broke one. Taking pity, he makes her a cup of tea. So begins the start of a terrifying obsession.
Soon Martha is emailing Gadd hundreds of times a day, turning up outside his house and harassing his family and friends. Over four-and-a-half years, Gadd says he received 41,071 emails, 744 tweets, letters totalling 106 pages and 350 hours of voicemail messages.
The series also hints at Martha’s previous history of stalking. Gadd’s character searches her name online and finds a newspaper article – fictionalised for the show – with the headline: ‘Sick stalker targets barrister’s deaf child’.
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Martha face to face with her victim in the Netflix series Baby Reindeer
This barrister is Mrs Wray, an advocate in Scotland whose family – including her severely disabled son Frankie – was targeted during the stalking campaign.
The final straw for her came in 2002 when she and her husband were accused by Ms Harvey of assaulting three-year-old Frankie, who was born with a rare chromosomal disorder. Mrs Wray then secured an interim interdict in court which prevented Ms Harvey from further harassing her.
Originally a solicitor, Mrs Wray first encountered Ms Harvey – who was a law graduate known as Fiona Muir from a middle-class family – in 1997 when she was persuaded to employ her for a short trial at her law firm in Glasgow. Mrs Wray was forced to sack Ms Harvey who went on to stalk and harass her.
The solicitor was granted an interim interdict in 2002 and this newspaper has seen documents detailing the reasons Mrs Wray asked the courts to intervene.
They included having to issue her staff with panic alarms for fear they would be attacked by Ms Harvey, being stared at in the street, being intimidated at a university course that Ms Harvey repeatedly turned up to and reporting Mrs Wray to social work for allegedly harming her son.
Confirmation from Mrs Wray’s lawyers at Glasgow firm Drummond Miller saying the ‘interim interdict was granted’ at the local sheriff court has also been seen by this newspaper.
Ms Harvey told Mr Morgan she ‘walked’ from the law firm after being head-hunted.
‘She [Mrs Wray] messed up because I went into the Court of Session, the high court in Edinburgh to get country-wide interdicts and an injunction in Scotland and England because I was going to move to London anyway,’ she said.
Ms Harvey went on to brand it ‘nonsense’ that an interim interdict was granted, claiming paperwork wasn’t filled in properly.
Last night Mrs Wray added: ‘What she said is wrong and has been heard by millions of people. It’s inaccurate and untrue.’