Man waged hate campaign on witness at wife's inquest

Menacing calls: Leo Iravanian and his wife Iveta, who was killed by a coach
Felix Allen12 April 2012

A grieving husband who launched a hate campaign against one of the main witnesses at his wife's inquest has been convicted of harassment.

Estate agent Leo Iravanian, 45, made eight menacing phone calls to financier Miles Cresswell-Turner who he blamed for robbing him of justice after his wife was killed on a pedestrian crossing, a court heard.

Iravanian threatened to "hurt" the father-of-two and smeared him as a paedophile in calls to his offices in Marylebone.

After legal assistant Iveta Iravanian, 33, was crushed by a National Express coach near Victoria station in February 2008, her husband campaigned to prove that the lights controlling the crossing at Grosvenor Gardens were dangerous.

But Mr Cresswell-Turner, who was cycling past, told Westminster coroner's court he had seen Mrs Iravanian running out when the red man was showing. Mr Cresswell-Turner, a partner at private equity firm Duke Street, told Iravanian's trial at City of London magistrates' court that the calls had been "disturbing".

Iravanian, of Willesden, was found guilty of one count of harassment. He will be sentenced tomorrow.

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