MP’s wife gets jail for stealing kitten from husband’s lover

LONDON: The estranged wife of a British MP has been given a nine-month suspended jail sentence for stealing a kitten from the home of her husband’s lover.
Christine Hemming, 53, whose husband John is a Liberal Democrat lawmaker, was found guilty of burglary last month at Birmingham Crown Court. She was filmed on CCTV removing the kitten , called Beauty, from the Birmingham home of Emily Cox last year.Christine was ordered to do 150 hours of community work and pay £1,000 costs.
The kitten, owned by the young daughter the MP had with Cox, has not been found since. Christine, whose sentence is suspended for 12 months, has said she still cannot remember how it came to be in her possession.
“I did not deliberately take the cat. I went to the property to give my husband his post. I had no recollection of taking the cat,” she was quoted as saying by the BBC. “I didn’t realize I had it until I returned to the house and there it was in the back of the car,” Christine said.
The Hemmings were married in 1981, but their relationship soured when details of the MP’s extramarital liaisons emerged, the most significant being with Cox. Hemming expressed his displeasure with the whole affair.