UK politician’s wife Christine Hemming stole kitten

THE estranged wife of a British lawmaker has been convicted of stealing a kitten from the house of her husband’s lover.

A jury deliberated for five hours on Friday before convicting Christine Hemming, 53, of burglary.

She had denied the charge, but was caught on a surveillance camera crawling on her hands and knees under a window and entering the house of her husband’s mistress, Emily Cox, a year ago.

She was later filmed leaving the house with four-month-old tabby kitten Beauty under her arm.

Hemming told the jury at Birmingham Crown Court in central England that she had gone to Ms Cox’s house to deliver mail to her husband but could not remember what happened next.

“It was just a blur. … I left holding a kitten – there is no doubt about that – but I have no recollection of picking the kitten up,” she said.

Hemming said she later tried to return the cat, leaving it in the yard of a house in Ms Cox’s neighbourhood. It has not been seen since.

Hemming is separated from her husband, Liberal Democrat politician John Hemming.

She will be sentenced next month.

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