Ex-Tory MP given community order and fine for harassing ex-wife

A former conservative deputy was given a community order and fined for harassing his ex -wife.

Jamie Wallis, who is now known as Katie Wallis, represented Bridgend from 2019 to 2024.

At an earlier hearing, 41 -year -old boy from Butetown in Cardiff harassed Rebecca Wallis, known as Rebecca Lovell between February 14 and 21 March.

Wallis was sentenced to a 12 -month community order with a 12 -day rehabilitation activity, and was fined £ 650 £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ 114 and fined £ 114.

A limitation order was given for 12 months to prevent contact with Rebecca Lovell.

The former deputy made unwanted phone calls, sent unwanted messages and sound grades.

The Cardiff Magistrate Criminal Court heard that messages contained a abusive language while accusing Rebecca Lovell of being a “average” and trying to find details about his new relationship.

A message demanded £ 350,000 in 15 minutes and wanted to ensure that Wallis’s ex -wife and others would never “never have a happy memory again”.

Wallis, the first deputy who started the gender transition process openly, said to the court before: “My name is Katie Wallis, but the legal step Jamie Wallis”.

Regional judge Rhys Williams asked Wallis’ lawyer how to handle the defendant.

Defense, Narita Bahra Kc, the court Wallis’in “dead name Jamie. Current name Katie,” he said.

Wallis and the sacrifice have been in a relationship for more than 15 years and left in 2020 and their divorces resulted in 2024.

In a personal statement, Rebecca Lovell said the messages were “drowning in a chaos that doesn’t do my own” and that he was worried about Wallis’s home.

He said he was wondering if the suicide threats were real.

Orum I wonder if I deserve to find inferiority for myself, or he said.

“I can’t remember a day when I didn’t cry. The woman I used to be was destroyed.”

Narita Bahra KC said to the court that his client has “suffered deep and emotional difficulties in completing the transition phase”, but he acknowledges that the behavior is “wrong”.

Bahra said that Wallis had an important turning point in the “deep mental crisis” in the transition process and when messages were sent, and that there was an unjust and apology acceptance in the last message.

Shortly after the last message was sent, Wallis was found by the police and was divided into sections under the Mental Health Law before being arrested and later accused.

Bahra said to the court that “Southern Wales Police and Royal Prosecutor’s Office did not show compassion in pursuit of a prosecution,” the court.

The authority added that “Southern Wales Police and CPS show a lack of understanding against things that the transition is” unique stress “.