Woman jailed for harassing family of missing toddler

A woman has been sentenced to seven weeks in prison for harassing the family of a child who has been missing since 1981.

Donna Wright, 34, falsely claimed to be Katrice Lee, the missing daughter of Richard Lee, from Hartlepool, via phone calls in December last year, only seven months into a suspended sentence for the same offence.

Ms Wright was jailed after admitting harassment and breaching her previous suspended sentence.

Katrice Lee disappeared on her second birthday in a busy shop near a British Army base in West Germany where her father was stationed in 1981.

The father of a toddler who went missing almost 33 years ago says he's 'envious' of the attention the Madeline McCann case is getting.

Richard Lee, who's daughter Katrice went missing on her second birthday in West Germany in November 1981, said:

Madeline disappeared while on a family holiday at the Portuguese resort of Praia da Luz in May 2003. British police are currently searching an area of land close to where the three-year-old went missing.

Richard Lee, the father of Katrice says he's pleased that Donna Wright will serve a custodial sentence for continually harassing the family of Katrice Lee.

Newton Aycliffe Magistrates Court heard she would serve seven weeks in jail.