A WOMAN cleared of harassing the wife of her alleged ex-lover for more than two years was warned by the High Court yesterday that she could face similar charges if there were any further complaints about her conduct.

The warning came after the court heard that Margaret Baker, from Corbridge, Northumberland, still went jogging past the home of Suzanne Brown on Sunday mornings - even though she lives miles away.

Mrs Baker, 46, was found not guilty of harassing Mrs Brown between June 2000 and February 2003.

Lord Justice Thomas and Mr Justice Fulford, sitting at the High Court in London, ruled the trial was flawed but did not order a new hearing because there had been no recent formal complaints.

Mr Justice Fulford said Mrs Baker had described having an affair with mother-of-two Mrs Brown's husband, which ended in 2000.

She was said by Mrs Brown to have made telephone calls, written letters and followed her round Hexham.

Mrs Brown said she was upset by the harassment, and Mrs Baker was prosecuted under the 1997 Protection from Harassment Act. Mrs Baker denied the charge.

Tyneside magistrates acquitted her in March after ruling some of the evidence was time-barred. She was bound over for a year to keep the peace in the sum of £100.

Mr Justice Fulford said the magistrates had got the law wrong and evidence should not have been excluded.

But it would not be "in the interests of justice" to order a new hearing, he said.