article_snippet: Chelmsford Crown Court heard that Penny Mellor has accused campaigner Shy Keenan of repeatedly lying in Childline founder Dame Esther book, claiming Childline founder Dame Esther was a fraudster and an attention seeker.
article_snippet: Penny Mellor (right) allegedly claims that Ms Keenanrepeatedly lied' in Dame Esther book .
article_snippet: Penny Mellor (right) denies stalking Ms Keenan and causing Ms Keenan serious alarm or distress between January 1 and 16 March 2013 by sending tweets, publishing statements about Ms Keenan in emails sent to work associates and carrying out a course of conduct which had a substantial effect on Ms Keenan day to day activities.
article_snippet: Mellor, who is defending Ms Keenan, claims that Ms Keenan lied in Ms Keenan autobiography Broken, and alleges that Ms Keenan is making money fraudulently out of her book and is an 'attention seeker, Munchausen by internet'.
article_snippet: Ms Keenan also claims that her book is 'titillation for paedophiles', that Ms Keenan should not have written such an account which Ms Keenan own children can read, and ought to be withdrawn.
article_snippet: The jury heard the trigger for Penny Mellor (right)'s 239 tweets was when Dame Esther was accused in 2012 by Ms Keenan of being 'a liar' and of having known about Jimmy Savile's behaviour.
article_snippet: Nevertheless Ms Keenan told the press that I had been removed and then the papers ran that
article_snippet: the court heard a fund-raising event for Childline was even cancelled because the organisers believed it 'was in some way involved or was tainted by the allegations made by Ms Keenan.
article_snippet: Penny Mellor's own campaign group, Dare to Care, supports those falsely accused of fabricating illness, which is known as Munchausen by Proxy.
highlights_snippet: Penny Mellor, 53, is accused of harassing campaigner Shy Keenan .
  