Woman who harassed hospital boss after death of her husband is jailed

“Meat tenderising hammer (I think she will be the Mummy on her wing).”

“Maybe we should all just laugh next time they say our prisons are full and have nowhere to put violent criminals.”

“No one should be subjected to abuse, however I can see where this lady was coming from, she lost her husband to what she considers hospital negligence and we all know how the medical profession make as it as difficult as they can when wheedling out of their responsibility when ever some one dies and its seen as hospitals fault. The lady should have found a dammed good lawyer who could have got to the answer that she needed and maybe if the hospital was culpable got her a nice fat check to compensate to some extent her loss. Now sadly she now has a record and nothing will be done to prove whether the hospital was to blame. Sometimes in life people are their own worst enemy.”

“What a callous nuisance and it's right that she's gone to prison. There are too many people with a chip on the shoulder who think that they can do just what they want and abuse who they want.

Harvey got one thing right when she said, "I think to be honest I would be better going to prison."

Keep her there until she mends her ways.”

“I rarely comment on these kinds of stories. The usual armchair moraliser's are always amusing to listen to. Of course none of you were in court for this case, or in court for the myriad of other cases that you seemingly adjudge yourselves to be experts on. Without being in court you are not in possession of the full facts as laid out before said court. How you come to your conclusions based on incomplete evidence I do not know but it is your right to comment if you so wish. And of course it is my and every other persons right to ignore your comments for the reasons I have just set out.

However, even though I disagree with the actions of this lady I do not see how jailing her helps unless it was deemed that her harassment campaign would continue unabated. Will she be locked up indefinitely if she continues to pose a risk and will she get the psychiatric and bereavement support it seems she so desperately needs whether incarcerated or not?”

“The restraining order would have been enough to ensure this didn't happen again.

However, it is still a crime, especially when you add that she refused to listen to the judge at one point. But I still think that prison, even though it is only 4 weeks, is a bit ridiculous for this crime.

Maybe community service would have been a better option.”

“I was supportive of this lady until I read about the meat tenderising hammer. All the same I can sympathize to a certain extent. Today I read in a national paper that a judge thinks burglars are "very brave" and he "wouldn't dare to be a burglar." This complete wazzock also thought that prison didn't do anyone any good. When you have judges spouting rubbish like that, you know this country is in deep trouble.”

“This country has a shameful record of dumping the mentally ill in prison. Our jails are full of people who should not be there and our neighbourhoods are full of people who should.

Shame on judge Taylor.”

“Discusted to here that this lady has been jailed . More so after reading that a grandfather has recived no jail time after down loading thousands of child porn . I think that the judges have everything the wrong way round , they should get a grip on what is actully happening here and start living in the real world .”

“I have talked with this lady and fully agree that she has mental health issues which I suspect her late husband supported her with. It seems that after he died not only had she lost someone she loved but her carer also.
Julia is a highly paid executive and an extremely intelligent woman but she really shouldn't be subjected to personal assualts in this manner.
I hope that Mrs Harvey gets the help she so desperately needs but I doubt it as the system has obviously failed her again and again.”