sentences:  The by-election for Leyton ward on 14 February 2008 was won by Liberal Democrat Winnie Smith.Following the appeal verdict, Grell resigned from the Labour Party, from her job working for the deputy mayor of London, and from the management committee of the Compass pressure group, but still claimed innocence, continuing to do so years afterwards.In 2011 she became the interim development officer, then business development manager, of the Hackney Community Law Centre.