Lenny Henry's daughter set up a fake email account under his name in a desperate bid to stop her being dumped, a court heard.
Billie Roma Henry, 28, used her famous family connections in a "manipulative" and "threatening" way, a judge was told. She was adopted by Lenny and Dawn French when she was just a few weeks old.
Her fake account using Lenny's name was used to send messages to boyfriend Samuel King. It offered money to save his business and stop him from being evicted.
The message was part of a sustained campaign of harassment that saw Henry, of Plymouth, given a suspended prison sentence today.
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