Karen Read case special prosecutor slams ‘campaign of intimidation and abuse’ from her fans

The special prosecutor in Karen Read’s retrial slammed her rabid fanbase’s “campaign of intimidation and abuse” in a scathing statement on Monday — less than a week after she was found not guilty of murdering her Boston cop boyfriend.

Hank Brennan, who was assigned after Read’s first case ended in a mistrial, also took a swipe at the financial analyst, declaring his investigation yielded no other suspects in the death of 46-year-old John O’Keefe.

Brennan said he was “disappointed” that his team “could not achieve justice” for the O’Keefe family.

“District Attorney Michael Morrissey appointed me, giving me full discretion to independently assess the case and follow the evidence no matter where it led. After an independent and thorough review of all the evidence, I concluded that the evidence led to one person, and only one person,” Brennan said in the statement.

“Neither the closed federal investigation nor my independent review led me to identify any other possible suspect or person responsible for the death of John O’Keefe,” Brennan wrote in a statement.

Read was found not guilty of second-degree murder and manslaughter charges in the drawn-out trial — but she was still found guilty of a lesser drunken driving charge.

“The campaign of intimidation and abuse that has been waged, funded, and promoted in public and on social media is the antithesis of justice,” Brennan’s statement continued.

“If this type of conduct becomes commonplace, it will threaten the integrity of our judicial system, affecting both victims and the criminally accused.”

In the days following the verdict, many members of the jury admitted they struggled to determine whether or not Read was guilty of murder in part because of the “poor investigation.”

The case captured the country’s attention and Read’s supporters quickly grew to worship the financial analyst, even adopting sign language to communicate with her.

Many waited outside the Needham, Mass. courthouse daily throughout the trial just so they could catch a glimpse of Read.

After the not guilty verdict was delivered, a sea of Read loyalists were there to greet her — and the heartbroken O’Keefe family soon after.

Unperturbed, Read made a jarring statement, asserting that she was the one trying to do right by O’Keefe the entire trial, not the prosecution.

“No one has fought harder for justice for John O’Keefe than I have. Than I have and my team,” she said outside the court.

The prosecution argued that Read slammed O’Keefe with her SUV during a blizzard and left him to die in a snowbank while she was drunk after a night of partying.

The defense, meanwhile, argued that Read was nothing but a scapegoat for the police who were purposefully conspiring against her.

O’Keefe’s friends, the McCabe and Albert families, who served as key witnesses during the case, believed that the verdict was a “miscarriage of justice.”

“Today we mourn with John’s family and lament the cruel reality that this prosecution was infected by lies and conspiracy theories spread by Karen Read, her defense team, and some in the media. The result is a devastating miscarriage of justice,” they wrote last week.