A 72-year-old man has been charged with allegedly sending grossly offensive emails to six MPs including Conservative party Brexit rebels Dominic Grieve, Anna Soubry and Nicky Morgan. David William Hall is facing trial on seven counts of improper use of a public electronic communications network, the Crown Prosecution Service has confirmed.
The trial has been listed for 4 June and also involves allegations regarding communications with Tory Heidi Allen and Labour MPs David Lammy and Eleanor Smith. “He is accused of seven charges of improper use of a public electronic communications network,” the CPS said.
It is alleged that the emails were grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character.
The 72-year-old, from Wolverhampton, was arrested on 30 January by officers from West Midlands police in connection with an investigation into messages sent the previous month, the force said. It is alleged that emails were sent on two separate occasions to Grieve, the former attorney general and MP for Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire.
Earlier this week Morgan, the former education secretary who has launched a cross-party campaign to force Theresa May to soften some of her Brexit red lines, confirmed that she would be giving evidence in the case. She said she had received death threats. All the allegations relate to messages sent between 14 and 19 December 2017.
The CPS confirmed that Hall was due to appear at Walsall magistrates court for trial in June.
