Transport Secretary Louise Haigh ‘admits she LIED to police’ after claiming her phone had been stolen

TRANSPORT Secretary Louise Haigh has admitted to lying to constabulary successful 2014 aft claiming her telephone was stolen, a study claims.

The furniture curate has revealed she misled cops astir the instrumentality erstwhile she gave them a database of items taken from her pursuing a mugging successful 2013.

She included successful that database her enactment mobile, but discovered aboriginal connected it had not been taken.

Haigh has told Sky News that she regrets the mistake and that she plead blameworthy to an offence successful transportation with the bungle.

She said: "Under the proposal of my solicitor I pleaded blameworthy - contempt the information this was a genuine mistake from which I did not marque immoderate gain.

"I was a young pistillate and the acquisition was terrifying."

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