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Journalist appears in court charged with stalking Osborne and wife

A JOURNALIST appeared in court today charged with stalking former chancellor George Osborne and his wife Thea Rogers for more than a year.

Lydia Suffield, 27, is said to have sent emails and Instagram messages to the couple and to have filed false referrals to the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children charity between June 8 2022 and July 5 last year, Westminster magistrates’ court heard.

Prosecution lawyer Rhianne Neil said the defendant had also contacted close friends and family of the couple as well as work colleagues.

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