Caroline Flack's ex and Apprentice star Andrew Brady jailed following 'campaign of hate'
05.02.2022 - 00:11
/ dailyrecord.co.uk
Andrew Brady, ex-fiance of Caroline Flack and former star of The Apprentice, has been jailed after pleading guilty to harassing a journalist.
Brady, 31, engaged in a "campaign of hate" against GB News presenter Dan Wootton.
Wootton - former the Executive Editor the Sun - received a number of terrifying voicemails from Brady in which he was branded a "murdering little c**t".
Mr Brady has been sentenced to four months in prison, reports The Mirror.
Sheffield Crown Court heard that Brady’s troubling behaviour had begun in the aftermath of Caroline Flack’s death, on February 15, 2020.
Prosecutors said the former Apprentice star had told his sister he was writing a book that he wanted to sell, but after no media organisations showed any interest, he began to harass Mr Wootton.
And sentencing him to four months in jail today, a judge described his actions as unrelated to any grief, but born from a "craving" for celebrity status.
Laura Marshall, prosecuting at Sheffield Crown Court, said: “He told his sister on his return from Australia that he had been writing down things about his life and relationship with Ms Flack and he might turn it into a book.
“There were messages sent to the complainant: “I want to be on your podcast, an interview, not a tell all. Sunday Sun gets exclusive.”
“The prosecution says he couldn’t sell his stories because nobody was prepared to buy them, and so instead he decided to take his anger out on people he blamed for that.”
Following his first set of rejections, Ms Marshall said Brady’s behaviour “escalated”.
She said he began to attack Mr Wootton on social media, online blogs, and left voice notes to the complainant's own telephone.
Ms Marshall said: “He would call him extremely derogatory terms, and