A disgraced ex-Liverpool councillor is facing fresh hate mail investigations.
Gerard Woodhouse was convicted in December of sending up to 100 anonymous cards and letters to Christine Banks between October 2023 and August 2025.
A judge at the city’s Magistrates Court labelled the 63-year-old’s campaign of abuse as ‘persistent, wicked and abusive’ after his sentencing at the end of last year.
But Woodhouse is now being investigated by police over further ‘poison pen letters’ connected to 10 years during which he represented the County ward on the council.
BBC North West have uncovered evidence that he may have been behind letters sent to other members of the public while still a serving Labour councillor until 2022.
An inquiry into letters which predated Woodhouse’s targeted abuse of Banks has been reopened by Merseyside Police with some letters dating as far back as 2014.
The force confirmed to the broadcaster that it had reopened the case ‘due to a victim coming forward’ in the wake of his imposed three-month community order.
Woodhouse’s handwriting on one of the letters sent to Banks, a former Lord Mayor of Liverpool, is believed to have been recognised by the new complainant.