Tuesday 21 February 2012

Consultant Harassed Ex With Gay Smears After Bitter Divorce


A respected consultant haematologist, waged a gay smear campaign against her doctor ex-husband, after feeling she was cheated out of £430,000 in their bitter divorce.


Dr. Finella Brito-Babapulle, 56, suggested his new girlfriend was a Bangkok ladyboy and sneaked notes into her children's Christmas gifts to the woman, which read: "Once a gay. Always a gay."


The mother-of-three, of West Park Road, Richmond, who was a blood-specialist at Ealing Hospital, was convicted of harassment against her ex - Dr. Mark Layton - also a consultant haematologist between September 19, 2010 and March 29, last year.


She lost an appeal at Southwark Crown Court last Thursday and was conditionally discharged for two years; served with a five-year restraining order banning her from contacting her ex and his girlfriend and ordered to pay £620 costs.


The couple, who have three children aged between 21 and 17, split in 2008 after twenty years together and Dr. Brito-Babapulle (pictured) took the divorce settlement all the way to the Court of Appeal.


She included a second Christmas note, which read: "I am happy for you both. I just want back the four hundred and thirty thousand you stole from me in the divorce."


In a series of emails and texts to Dr. Layton and to friends, family and professional colleagues Dr. Brita-Babapulle accused her ex of gay affairs and cruising notorious pick-up haunts.


She told the court it was her ex-husband who was bitter over the divorce and invented the charges to punish her.


"His strategy was to nail his ex-wife who now has to go before the General Medical Council with this criminal conviction.


"He was very unhappy because he did not get one of my two London houses.


"This is a man who did not buy his wife a wedding ring, but would rather give her a criminal record.


"He is financially driven and found his new girlfriend on a website called millionaires dot com."


Dr. Layton received half of the proceeds of the family home, which Dr. Brita-Babapulle claims she bought in full, then stashed the money in a secret Swiss bank account, according to the defendant.


She repeated her unfounded gay slurs in court claiming: "He was gay when we met. He had a long-standing relationship with a man.


"There was a period of despair and amazement in the family at what I had discovered and then a fascination with this alternative lifestyle. After that we used to laugh and joke about it."


Dr. Brita-Babapulle instigated divorce proceedings. "I did so with a heavy heart after he refused to come to counselling for his addiction to gay sex."


She denied her texts, emails and notes amounted to harassment insisting: "They were not meant to be harmful. I thought his new partner should know he was gay."


In one email Dr. Brita-Babapulle wrote: "This stupid woman thinks she is having sex with a heterosexual."


The defendant also pointed the finger at her ex-husband after she was burgled on the same day as her arrest and later punched by two mystery men in Kew.


"I live in fear of my life," she told the court. "I am the only person who has been assaulted in Kew in the last fifteen years."


Recorder Alexander Layton, dismissed the appeal and told Dr. Brita-Babapulle: "Your behaviour is distressing and distressed. There are no winners here.


"It is a distressing state of family affairs paraded before us today."

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