Bank Intern Harassed Boss She Had Affair With

A graduate trainee, who fell in love with a HSBC manager thirty years her senior, bombarded him and his teenage daughter with disturbing and insulting messages when they split-up, a court heard.

Emily Salt, 26, who has a degree in International Business, Finance and Economics joined the banking giant as a Graduate Management Trainee, where she met the middle-aged boss.

However, when their relationship fell apart she messaged the father, 56, 89 times over four weeks, threatening: “I will destroy your daughter and your career.”

She told his 16 year-old daughter: “You look like a slut, your eyebrows are halfway up our head. Your dad makes enough money to get a nose job for you.”

Insults aimed at the girl’s mother were also included.

Salt, of Elmhurst Cottage, Lyme Park, Disley, Stockport - who attended the local Poynton High School Sixth Form - was sentenced to an eighteen month community order.

She appeared at south London’s Croydon Magistrates Court as her offending continued during a period living in the capital.

Salt pleaded guilty to causing her ex harassment between April 15 and May 19, last year and his daughter harassment between November 1, 2018 and August 1, 2019.

She was also ordered to complete up to 25 days probation-ordered rehabilitation and 100 hours community service work.

Salt was made subject to an 18-month restraining order, prohibiting contact with the two victims or visiting their addresses in Old Coppice, York and nearby Ploughmans Lane, Haxby.

She must also pay £85 costs and an £85 victim surcharge.

“The offences clearly cross the custody threshold. The young victim was forced to endure nearly a year of your sustained abuse and harassment,” District Judge Nigel McLean told the first-time offender.

“It was designed to cause her maximum distress at a time she was sitting exams.

“Your actions in relation to the father were designed to cause him distress by subjecting him to harassment and abusing his daughter as well.

“The abuse they are subject to was sinister.”

Prosecutor Julie Idowu said: “The former partner told the defendant not to contact him or his family and threatened to report her to the police as there had been other incidents.

“There was also an attempt to hack into the ISA account of the daughter. He received a text from the defendant notifying him of an attempt to liquidate the investment in his daughter’s Junior ISA account.”

Salt was also originally charged with a £9,000 fraud regarding the ISA, but this was dropped at Inner London Crown Court.

“Facebook and Instagram accounts were set up in the name of the male complainant and friends and family of his received requests, but the accounts belonged to this defendant,” added Ms Idowu.

Salt’s lawyer Marina Williamson told the court: “She met the victim during a six-month internship at the bank and little did she know it would end up in the terrible ordeal that has ended here.

“He was senior at the bank, thirty years older than her and she was quite vulnerable, quite young.

“She fell deeply in love with him and that is part of the reason she behaved so badly at the end.

“She was a victim of psychological manipulation, domestic violence at the hands of the complainant who lied and made false promises.”

However, District Judge McLean announced: “This is victim blaming. We have to be very careful here.

“The second victim, the daughter, was an innocent party in all of this and it went on for almost a year against her.”