A WOMAN accused of stalking has revealed the year of hell she endured before a judge threw out charges against her.

Veronica Tann, 50, told the Daily Echo that since being charged with stalking and perverting the course of justice she has suffered two suspected heart attacks.

Mrs Tann was accused of sending a number of letters and emails to Debra Lendrum revealing that she had been having an affair with her Southampton driving instructor husband John Lendrum, as well as encouraging Steve Lansley, a gay lover of Mr Lendrum’s, to lie to police.

But three days into the trial at Southampton Crown Court Judge Peter Ralls QC said the case was “a bit of a whodunit” and instructed the jury to find her not guilty on both counts.

Mrs Tann, of Sengana Close, Botley, said: “The judge came to the right conclusion and I am happy for that – hopefully people will see that I wasn’t lying at all.

“I have had two suspected heart attacks and both my parents are very ill, but I’m going to give them the good news now.

“John Lendrum gave himself away quite a few times. I feel sorry for Debra Lendrum, I really do, and I wish her well whatever happens.”

Earlier in the trial Mrs Lendrum wept as she recalled an earlier case where she had been the victim of stalking, and relived the moment she opened messages proving that her husband had been unfaithful.

The court heard that Mrs Lendrum received phone calls saying “it’s always the wife who is last to know” and a Valentine’s Day card in her husband’s writing addressed to another woman.

She only confronted John Lendrum after she received a package on February 14, 2013, containing naked pictures of him and images showing his profile on a cottaging website.

And driving instructor Steve Lansley, who said Tann had forced him to secretly record a conversation with police, gave evidence so contradictory that Judge Ralls had to remind him he was under oath and to tell the truth.

He admitted meeting John Lendrum on a cottaging website and confirmed that when police were investigating the messages sent to Mrs Lendrum he did not mention that he had a sexual relationship with Mr Lendrum.

Jodie Mittell, defending Tann, said: “You didn’t tell the police that you had met him on a cottaging website – that wasn’t the complete truth, was it?”

But Mr Lansley said he had lied to police in an attempt to protect Mrs Lendrum.

Dismissing the case, Judge Ralls told the jury: “This is a somewhat unusual case and it’s a bit of a whodunit.

“It relies on the evidence of Steve Lansley that he was forced by the defendant to make false statements to police.

“In light of his admissions that cannot stand.”