www.thetimes.co.uk/article/andrew-griffiths-mental-breakdown-drove-mp-to-send-shameful-sex-texts-q83dp9qgg
So much wrong with this article. The summary is that a middle aged man serially harassed two young women with obscene, sexually explicit text messages. He only stopped when they finally told the press about it. The man is a current Tory MP.
He’s also married. His wife has recently given birth to a little girl. So, as well as abusing two young women he has also psychologically abused his wife.
He seems to be like a British Anthony Wiener.
But strangely, the piece does not even glance on the effect and the damage inflicted on the two women who were on the receiving end of his depraved messages nor on the betrayal to his post partum wife. No, the whole piece is about justifying why this poor man should have our pity and sympathy.
“Griffiths pinpoints the moment his mental health started to collapse at another happy event this year. When Alice was two months old, he watched his 31-year-old niece walk down the aisle.”
“It was such a perfect day and the sun was shining and I could not have been any happier,” he muses. “And then it just hit me that if Alice gets married at 31 like my niece was, then I would be 79.”
So, by the logic of this article; Poor man realises he’s not young anymore and so, it’s totally justifiable that he goes out and is unfaithful to his wife and harasses two young women to prove his youth and virility to himself.
Article extract:
“It was supposed to be the happiest time of their lives. After the heartache of trying without success to conceive a baby, Tory MP Andrew Griffiths, 48, and his wife Kate, 47, welcomed “little miracle” Alice into their world in April.
Two months later he was forced to resign as minister for small business after revelations that he had bombarded a barmaid, Imogen Treharne, 28, and her friend with explicit text messages after striking up a friendship on social media.
The MP for Burton had referred to Treharne and her unnamed friend as the “tiy twins” and suggested a variety of depraved acts in more than 2,000 text messages sent over just 21 days. The MP also sent the women £700 for X-rated pictures and videos and asked them to tie each other up, boasting: “I can be a dirty * when I’m turned on.”
In one text, he wrote: “Daddy has been up making speeches and running the country. But what he really wants to be doing is naughty girls’ .” The exchanges ended shortly before the women told their story to a tabloid newspaper and Griffiths was forced to refer himself to the Tory party’s internal disciplinary panel.
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