Labour - Benefit Fraud

A FORMER mayor and serving councillor is facing trial in the New Year after being charged with a £13,000 benefit fraud. John McGowan, 53, of Ribble Way, Low Moor, Clitheroe, is alleged to have been caught playing golf, shopping and even doing a paper round while claiming a high level of disability allowance.

McGowan is both a Ribble Valley councillor and Clitheroe town councillor, representing the Edisford and Low Moor ward. He was the Mayor of Clitheroe for two years from 1997.
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He has not been suspended from his role on either council.

The Labour councillor has more than 16 years local government experience. He defected to Labour from the Liberal Democrats in 1999 after a row that saw him disposed from his role as deputy town mayor in Clitheroe. On Ribble Valley Council McGowan is on the housing committee, has a responsibility for the overview and scrutiny of council services and sits on the parish council liaison board.
http://www.thisislancashire.co.uk/news/headlines/display.var05.0.exmayor_on_fraud_charge.php

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A FORMER mayor has avoided jail after paying back more than £11,000 in disability benefits that he falsely claimed.

John McGowan, 54, had just 28 days to find the cash after a confiscation order was made last month.

The former Clitheroe Town councillor was made to pay £11,882 at a proceeds of crime hearing following his conviction of benefit fraud in the summer.

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He was handed an eight-month suspended prison sentence, which could have been activated if he had failed to pay back what he owed to the Department for Work and Pensions on time.

McGowan was caught playing golf and delivering newspapers while claiming disability allowance.

He was ordered to complete 80 hours unpaid work after failing to notify the Department for Work and Pensions that his medical condition had improved.

McGowan, who served as the town's mayor for two years from 1997 and was also a Ribble Valley councillor until earlier this year, pleaded guilty to falsely claiming disability living allowance between April 2004 and September 2006.

He first claimed the allowance in May 1992 after telling authorities he was virtually unable to walk without mobility aids and that he needed help washing and dressing on a day-to-day basis.

In 1997 he submitted a further claim stating that his condition had worsened and he now needed to use a mobility scooter.

However, the benefit helpline received a tip-off in March 2006 that he was an active Labour councillor and had also been seen carrying out a paper round.

McGowan declined to comment after the case.

However, his solicitor, David Ryan of Forbes Solicitors, said: "My client realises that what he did was wrong which was implicit by his early guilty plea.

"It is right that he should be punished and he accepts that punishment.

"He always had every intention of paying back the money to the Department of Work and Pensions, no matter how long it took."

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Lib Dem's They're All At It

A WANTED local councillor has turned himself in four days after magistrates issued a police warrant for his arrest. Dishevelled liberal democrat councillor, Mushtaq Hayat paced outside Slough Magistrates' Court and chain smoked as he waited for his health and safety prosecution to be heard on Monday.

Police had been searching for the troubled councillor ever since they were issued with a warrant for the bankrupt small businessman's arrest at Maidenhead Magistrates' Court last Wednesday - when he failed to appear at court for the second time. Slough Borough Council brought legal proceedings against the councillor after a health and safety inspection discovered an alleged cockroach infestation at his Halal Pizza Parlour, in Bradley Road, Chalvey, last year.
http://icberkshire.icnetwork.co.uk/express/slough/tm_headline=former-p0102-name_page.html

Conservative Racism

A Chorley councillor and his girlfriend are to stand trial early next year over charges in connection with an alleged racist incident at an airport taxi rank.

Councillor Shaun Smith, 37, who represents Wheelton and Withnell ward, has been charged with a racially aggravated public order offence and common assault following a late night incident at Manchester Airport in June. His girlfriend, Amanda Jane Ahlgreen, 39, of Trigg Lane, Heapey, Chorley, has also been charged with a racially aggravated public order offence.


The pair were committed to Minshell Street Crown Court, Manchester, on January 25, when they appeared at Trafford Magistrates Court on Friday. Smith, of Briers Brow, Wheelton, was elected for the Conservative party to Chorley Borough Council in 2004.
http://www.thisislancashire.co.uk/news/headlines/display.var.1071091.0.race_charge_coupphp

Lib Dem - Health and Safety

A COUNCILLOR is facing arrest for the second time this year after failing to turn up at Maidenhead magistrates court on Wednesday. But when the Express confronted Councillor Mushtaq Hayat later that day, he seemed unware of the danger he was in.

Cllr Hayat, a Slough Lib Dem, is also facing charges of allowing his pizza restaurant to be infested with cockroaches for the second time. He failed to appear before magistrates on Wednesday, when a warrant for his arrest was issued.

In December last year, his restaurant Halal Pizza Place, in Bradley Road, Slough, was closed down temporarily after it was found to be infested. The former chairman of the borough health panel also failed to turn up for a court appearance last month and a warrant was issued for his arrest at the time.

Hayat has already has one conviction over a cockroach infestation and was given a rap over the knuckles by healthy and safety bosses. The 46-year-old from Wexham Road, Slough, was fined £3,000 plus £1,500 hygiene costs in March 2003.

Inspectors found evidence of an infestation by German cockroaches at the Halal Pizza Palace when they visited in January 2002.

http://icberkshire.icnetwork.co.uk/chronicle/tm_headline=police-seek-councillor-after-c_page.html

Lib Dems in the Jailhouse

Two Liberal Democrat councillors from Lancashire have been jailed for trying to rig a local election.

Manzur Hussain, 58, and Mozaquir Ali, 44, defrauded dozens of voters during the 2004 local government elections. The men, who were sitting on Burnley Council at the time, collected signed proxy vote forms door-to-door and filled them in themselves. At Preston Crown Court they were each sentenced to 18 months for falsifying postal proxy votes.

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Lib Dem Sex

A Bradford councillor gave cash to two young girls after sexually abusing them, a court heard.

Bob Hargreaves, 62, a Liberal Democrat councillor for the Bolton and Undercliffe ward, went on trial at Bradford Crown Court yesterday after denying charges of indecency with a child, indecent assault and attempted rape.

The jury was told the abuse took place in a butcher's shop in 1992 and ended when Hargreaves allegedly tried to rape one of the girls. Neither of the girls can be identified for legal reasons.

Prosecutor Sharon Beattie told the court the abuse had started when Hargreaves coerced one of the girls, who were both 11 years old at the time, to perform a sexual act on him.

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Lib Dem Fraud

A Lib Dem COUNCILLOR is the subject of a standards investigation after she took a major role in granting cash which paid for her daughter to go on a trip to a theme park.

Coun Donna Caley, who represents the Bradley ward in Nelson, asked the Nelson Committee for £500 to fund a trip to Blackpool Pleasure Beach for a group of teenagers, including her daughter, according to a council report following an investigation.

This is the second time that Coun Caley has been called to face the standards committee in just four months. In July, she was accused of failing to tell a meeting that she had an interest in two planning applications near her home, then pressing for enforcement action to be taken.
http://www.thisislancashire.co.uk/news/headlines/display.varles_broken_by_councillor.php

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A favourite trick of liberal-leftwing interviewers and politicians when losing an argument with BNP spokesmen is to start banging on about "BNP criminals."

Well, as Anne Winterton pointed out in The Sunday Times, this really isn't a very honest thing to do when not mentioning the fact that a very small number of BNP criminal records (mainly the result of political persecution, self-defence against leftist thugs and youthful stupidity now twenty years or more in the past) need to be put into the context of the far worse, more numerous and more recent crimes of many members of the old parties.

Here below is a far from complete list which readers will find useful as well as shocking. Future miscreants from the big three parties be warned, you'll be getting your very own posts on here.

Labour Criminals

SEX:

Labour Councillor (Newton Aycliffe/Durham – In Tony Blair's Sedgefield constituency), Martyn Locklin – Convicted on 8 counts of rape and indecent assault on teenage boys in 2001, and jailed for 15 years (reduced to 12 on appeal). Locklin was a top local Party bigwig on first-name terms with Tony Blair, after escorting the PM during visits to his constituency on several occasions. The judge also put the Labour rapist on the sex offender’s register for life, telling him: “You will be watched for the rest of your days. You need to be”. http://archive.darlingtonandstocktontimes.co.uk/2002/4/3/140310.html

Labour Councillor (Westlands/Worcestershire), Keith Rogers – Convicted, fined, and placed on the sex offender’s register in 2003, after downloading over 2,000 hardcore child porn photos on his computer. http://archive.worcesternews.co.uk/2003/10/1/168589.html

Labour Councillor (Dagenham/London), Terry Power – Forced to resign in 1999 after being arrested and charged with sex attacks on teenage boys. Details of trial and conviction to follow.

Labour Parliamentary candidate (Cheadle/Cheshire), Paul Diggert – Subject of a 2002 police investigation into the alleged procurement of underage girls for sexual purposes via internet chatrooms. According to the `Sunday Mirror` (3/11/02), Diggert had admitted to having four underage girls that he was `grooming` for sex. In 2004 Diggert was convicted of making and distributing indecent pictures of children. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&client=news&q=%22Paul+Diggert%22&btnG=Search

Prominent Kent Labour Party activist Mark Tann (who has met Tony & Cherie at Party functions) – Convicted and jailed for 15 years in 2002 for sexually assaulting a girl of 9, and raping a 4-year old girl on 2 separate occasions. And no, that’s not a miss-print. She was FOUR YEARS OLD. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2669865.stm

Labour Councillor and former Mayor (Redbridge/London), Muhammed Javed – found guilty of misconduct by a Standards Boards tribunal and suspended from the Labour party in 2005, following remarks made to a female Tory councillor during a break at a council meeting. The dashing, silver-tongued Labour cavalier had approached Councillor Kathy Pepperel and told her: “I must say Kathy, you look very nice tonight. Nice enough to make me want to rape you”. http://www.standardsboard.co.uk/Casesummaries/Casesummaries/R/RedbridgeLondonBoroughof/Name,3196,en.html

Labour Councillor (Hillingdon/London), Mohammed Khursheed – Stood trial in 2001 on charges of indecent assault and gross indecency with a 7 year-old girl, but was eventually cleared. http://www2.newsquest.co.uk/hertfordshire/thisis/politics/news/cd01280400.html

Labour Councillor (Gosport/Portsmouth), Neil Redrup - Arrested under the Sexual Offences Act in 2007 after police raided his home and seized his computer. Cllr Redrup is suspected of setting up cameras in his home to spy on his lodgers. Released on bail as inquiries continue… http://www.portsmouthtoday.co.uk/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleID=2121331&SectionID=458

Labour Councillor (Hornchurch/Essex), Alan Prescott, who was also a senior magistrate – Convicted and jailed for 2 years in 2001, for molesting children at the East London care home where he was the superintendent. Prescott, described in court as a “pillar of his local community” admitted carrying out sex attacks on four teenage boys as they slept in their beds. http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,565800,00.html

Labour Mayor and Council Leader (Westhoughton/Lancashire), Nicholas Green – Convicted and jailed for 10 years in 1998, for 3 rapes and 13 counts of indecent assault against little girls between the age of 6 and 10. He raped one woman on her wedding day. http://archive.leighjournal.co.uk/1998/10/3/788498.html

Labour Councillor (Northampton/Northamptonshire), and former School Governor, Alec Dyer-Atkins – Convicted and jailed for 2 years in 2003 for downloading more than 42,000 pictures and films described in court as “Horrifying images of child abuse”. Dyer-Atkins was a member of an international paedophile ring called `The Shadows Brotherhood` which was successfully penetrated following stirling work by Britain's National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU). Commenting on the conviction of the depraved Labour Party beast, NHTCU Deputy Head, Mick Deats said: “This man had some of the worst images on his computers that officers from this unit have ever viewed”. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/05/24/exlocal_councillor_gets_two_years/

Labour Councillor (North Lincolnshire), David Spooner – Convicted and jailed for 1 year for masturbating in front of 2 young boys.

Labour Mayor (Todmordon/West Yorkshire), John Winstanley – Convicted and jailed in 1986 for rape and threats to kill. After raping and threatening to kill his terrified victim, Winstanley then ordered the woman to go on all fours before urinating on her.

Labour Party Official (North West England Regional Officer, and parliamentary adviser to the Home Office Minister responsible for crime and policing, Hazel Blears), Peter Tuffley – Convicted and jailed for 15 months and placed on the sex offenders register for 10 years in 2006, for the sexual molestation of a 13-year old boy that he had previously `groomed` on the internet. Tuffley was described as a `rising star` within the Labour Party - which is nothing to be proud of either! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/5368488.stm

Labour’s 2005 Parliamentary Candidate (Reading East/Berkshire), Tony Page – Has 2 Convictions for `Acts of gross indecency` in public toilets. Reading’s voters were unimpressed, and Page lost the Labour-held seat to the Tories. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Page

Prominent Edinburgh Labour party activist and election candidate, Rab Knox - Convicted and jailed for 3 years in 2005 for a horrific sex attack on a woman passenger in his taxi cab. Knox had previously been dubbed Labours “Mr Anti-Sleaze” in Scottish political circles due to his unimpeachable integrity and general all-round saintlyness. Top bloke! http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=180892005

Entire Labour Party conspired to conceal the activities of Labour Party activist, social worker and serial child-molester Mark Trotter, who died from AIDS in 1995 before he could be convicted. http://www.whatnextjournal.co.uk/Pages/Back/Wnext6/Hackney.html

Labour Councillor (Newham/London), Greg Vincent, who was the Election Agent to Labour MP Tony Banks at the 2001 General Election – Convicted and given a 2-year community rehabilitation order in 2003, for possession of hardcore kiddie porn films and photos, featuring children as young as 8. One of the photos the Labour Councillor found so entertaining, featured – as described in court – a girl aged around 10, naked except for a dog-collar, being assaulted and abused while her hands were tied behind her back around a beam. Vincent was also a School Governor. http://www.survivorsswindon.com/ore.htm

Labour Councillor (Bridgend/South Wales), Iestyn Tudor Davies – Convicted, jailed for 7 years, and placed on the sex offender’s register for life in 2005, for repeatedly raping a 9-year old girl. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/1141519.stm

Labour MP (Rhonda Valley/Wales), Chris Bryant - Poses in his pants on the Internet to advertise himself for casual gay sex encounters. Describes himself as “Horny as buggery” and says, “I'd love a good long fuck”. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/3256348.stm

Labour Councillor (Halton/Leeds), Lee Benson – Convicted and awaiting sentence in 2005, after pleading guilty on 12 counts of possession of indecent images of children, featuring youngsters between the ages of 5 and 11. Benson, who has a child of his own, repaid the fools who voted for him by storing his revolting kiddie porn collection on the computer provided for him by the council. Benson has been `suspended` - not expelled - by the Labour Party, which means his name remains on the Labour Party membership list, as well as on the sex offenders register. As to which is the more shameful – take your pick! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_yorkshire/4257867.stm

Labour Mayor (Burnley/Lancashire), Peter Swainston – Convicted of committing `Acts of gross indecency` with another man in a public toilet in 1997. Forced to resign as Mayor, although he remained on the Council. http://archive.thisislancashire.co.uk/1999/2/2/782310.html

Labour MP (Caerphilly/Wales), and former Cabinet Minister, Ron Davies - Mugged by a Rasta on Clapham Common while cruising for gay sex. He was photographed again by the media recently, engaged in some `man-on-man` action in a field off a motorway. “I was only looking for badgers” he said. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/202441.stm

Labour Councillor and Mayor-Elect (Merton/London), Sam Chaudry – Due to become Merton’s first Asian Mayor, before he was arrested, tried and convicted of multiple sex attacks on young girls in 1999. One of his victims was a 5-year old. http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/archive/display.var.258160.0.look_back_at_2002.php

Labour prospective Parliamentary candidate (Copeland/Cumbria), Christine Wheatley – Dropped as the 2005 General election candidate following revelations that she used to work as a Paris street hooker - although why the bought-and-paid for political prostitutes of New Labour felt she was anything but an ideal representative for them, remains unclear. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4295083.stm

Labour Councillor (Wokingham/Berkshire), Nelson Bland – Convicted on 16 counts of possession and distribution of hardcore child porn in 2004. Sentenced to community service, placed on the sex offender’s register and ordered to attend rehabilitation classes for paedophiles. Bland used his own teenage daughters computer to hoard his grotesque gallery of child abuse, which was discovered by police during a search of Bland`s home, when they arrested him in connection with the murder of a Nottingham businessman. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/berkshire/3566133.stm

Former Labour Councillor (North Yorkshire), Raymond Coates – Charged along with his son Philip Coats in 2003, with child rape, using threats to procure a woman for sex and, wait for it… inciting a woman to have sex with an animal. Coats junior was sentenced to 13 years in prison for his part in the Father & Son rape and bestiality double-act, although the trial of 76-year old Raymond Coats was abandoned after the court ruled he was too ill to stand trial. Agreeing to the indefinite postponement, Judge Paul Hoffman said: “With enormous reluctance, and I emphasise that, enormous reluctance because it is unsatisfactory that these very serious and nasty charges should remain unresolved, I am going to order a stay on this basis. If the evidence were to demonstrate a recovery, the stay can be revoked”. http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/mostpopular.var.1300052.mostviewed.i_agreed_to_have_sex_with_the_father_of_my_husband_so_i_wouldnt_lose_my_son.php

Labour Councillor (Manchester/Cheshire), George Harding – Charged with indecent assault on a girl of 12.

Labour MP (Sheffield/Yorkshire), Joe Ashton – Caught up in a Police raid while frequenting a brothel in 1999. Tried to lie his way out of the scandal. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/306151.stm

Yusef Azad – One of Ken Livingston’s overpaid left-wing cronies on the London Assembly gravy train – Resigned from his 60K-plus a year job `assisting` Assembly members, after being arrested on suspicion of downloading child porn in 2003. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2658067.stm

Labour Councillor (Shropshire), Derek Woodvine – Arrested by Police in anti-porn operation.

Labour MP (Sheffield/Yorkshire), Clive Betts – Suspended from Parliament for 7 days in 2004, after being caught forging immigration papers to extend the stay of his Brazilian rent-boy gay lover. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/south_yorkshire/3100652.stm

According to media reports, the names of 2 former Labour Cabinet Ministers said to be `Household names` appear on the `Operation Ore` list of subscribers to hard-core child pornography. The same FBI investigation, which led to the arrest of rock star Pete Townshend. So who are they Mr. Blair? http://www.gaiaguys.net/OperationOre.htm

Labour Councillor (Coxhoe/Durham), Les Sheppard – Convicted in 2004 on ten counts of indecent assault on young girls. Jailed for 2 years, and placed on the sex offenders register for 10 years. Teeside Crown Court heard how 71 year old Cllr Sheppard lured his victims into his gold Porsche before driving them to remote spots, where he would submit them to sickening sex attacks. After his arrest, the Labour nonce-case told police “I love women, but you do things which you regret”. Sheppard’s `women` victims were between 9 and 13 years old. http://archive.thenorthernecho.co.uk/2005/1/24/25246.html

Labour Councillor and former Mayor (Halton/Cheshire), Liam Temple - Convicted in 2004 of `Inciting a child under 16 to commit an act of gross indecency` after the 58-year old Labour pervert had attempted to molest a 12-year old girl. During the case, the brave youngster told the court via a video link: “He said if I let him touch me he would give me money”. http://archive.thisischeshire.co.uk/2005/4/13/131596.html

Labour Councillor (Durham), Derrick Payne – Arrested by Police following a sex attack.

Labour Councillor (Stoke/Staffordshire), Michael Barnes, put forward a motion in July 2004 to change the constitution of Stoke-on-Trent Council. The proposed amendments were designed to prevent the City’s two British National Party councillors from chairing any committees, so as to `protect` the good citizens of Stoke from the beastly BNP types they’d voted for in huge numbers to represent them. As Mr Barnes explained to the local paper, the move was “to prevent the BNP from exerting more influence”, and was “in the best interests of the people of Stoke-on-Trent”. A few months later, in November 2004, the civic-minded and virtuous Councillor Barnes appeared at North Staffordshire Magistrates Court, to face seven different charges relating to child pornography. http://www.bnp.org.uk/news_detail.php?newsId=10

Labour Councillor and Deputy Council Leader (Northumberland), John Whiteman, who was also a senior member of the local police authority – Convicted and fined in 2002 for soliciting a prostitute in the red light district of Middlesbrough. The court heard Whitman was arrested in his car as Police discovered him in a “state of undress” with a lady of the night he had just paid £35 for sex. He subsequently resigned from the council. http://archive.thenorthernecho.co.uk/2002/1/6/149505.html

VIOLENCE:

Labour Councillor (Kirkby, Merseyside) Charlie Preston – Convicted and jailed for 5 years in 1982 for assault and burglary. Preston broke into the home of a 64 year old man, and beat him up in his bed as he slept before robbing the house. The judge described the case as “As bad a matter of burglary as I can remember”. Preston also held the position on the Council of, wait for it.... `Deputy Cabinet Member for Youth, Citizenship, and Community Safety`. http://www.kirkbytimes.co.uk/news_items/2003_news/charlie_preston_councillor.html

Labour Councillor (Renfrewshire/Scotland), Richard Manser – Locally notorious Labour thug with convictions for assault. http://www.alba.org.uk/paisleysouth/smears13.html

Labour Councillor (East Staffordshire), Doug Haw - Convicted and jailed for 9 months in 2006 for beating up Mrs Winnifred West - a woman of 83. The 36 year old Labour thug punched the helpless old lady in the face causing cuts and bleeding, following a trivial dispute over a parking space. http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/detail.asp?cat=General%20News&id=6449101

Labour Councillor (Pontypridd/Wales), Ken Brookman – Bit off a mans ear in front of his victims wife and 12-year old daughter, following a dispute over a seat on a train. Convicted on 2 counts of unlawful wounding and given a fine and suspended 2-year sentence in 1997.

Labour Mayor (Bolton/Lancashire), Prentice Howarth – Being investigated by police in 2005 after she was caught on video vandalizing a neighbour’s car, causing hundreds of pounds worth of damage. The neighbour had set up CCTV cameras to catch the culprit after repeated attacks upon his brand new £15,000 Citroen Xsara Picasso. Mrs Howarth has admitted responsibility but is, somewhat bizarrely, claiming the vandalism was an `accident`. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/4679271.stm

In 2001, Labour MP Paul Marsden defected to the LibDems, after claiming he had been roughed up by Labour whip office “thugs”. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/1702514.stm

Labour Councillor (Wales) Denis Jones – Convicted and jailed for unlawful wounding after attacking a neighbour with a sledgehammer.

Labour Councillors (Ilfracombe/Devon), Brian Cotton and Tony Cooper – Investigated by Police following serious allegations of Harassment. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2669517.stm

Labour Government Minister (Pensions), Chris Pond – Convicted, cautioned, and fined for criminal damage in 2005, after attacking a neighbour’s house following a dispute over parking spaces. His victim, Nicola Ashton said in court “He was like a madman” http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/03/20/upond.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/03/20/ixportaltop.html

Labour Councillor (Farnham/Berkshire), Jogindar Bal - Stripped of his taxi drivers license in 2004 after repeatedly failing to declare his 1999 assault conviction to the taxi licensing authorities.

Labour Councillor (Rochdale/Manchester), Gholam Murtaza – Convicted and jailed for 6 months in 1998 for Assault and Affray, after attacking two women police officers with a knife. Murtaza also won his seat on the council illegally in 2003, as the seriousness of his criminal record disqualified him from standing in the first place, according to British electoral law. Typically, the Labour Party tried to lie their way out of the scandal by claiming he had concealed his past from them at the time of his selection as a candidate. However, the local Labour MP, Jim Dobbin, received a letter at the time from the Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police, David Wilmot, giving full details of Councillor Murtaza`s conviction, and the vicious, knife-wielding Labour thug himself said: “People in the party were aware of my conviction while I was in prison. I told Heyward and Middleton MP Jim Dobbin at that time because I was fighting my conviction. The local Labour Party was fully aware of my conviction. I declared it at my interview, and on my application form”. http://www.rochdaleobserver.co.uk/news/s/34/34213_labour_loses_council_control_after_resignation.html

Labour Councillor (Hartlepool), Robbie Payne – Arrested, held overnight, then cautioned in 2005, for breach of the peace and assaulting a police officer.

Labour Councillor and former Mayor (Stockton/Teeside), Keith Dobinson – Investigated by Police for alleged assault on an OAP, which left the old man of 79 hospitalised. http://archive.thenorthernecho.co.uk/2002/11/6/115266.html

Labour Councillor (Rotherham/Yorkshire), Jahangir Akhtar – Sentenced to community service for helping his son and brother beat up a diner in a restaurant.

At the strictly controlled and stage-managed 2005 Labour Party Conference in Brighton, an old man of 82 in the audience was set upon and violently ejected from the building by two enormous Labour goons during a speech by the Foreign Secretary Jack Straw. He was then detained by police under the Prevention of Terrorism Act. His crime? He had dared to utter a single word, “nonsense”, in response to the inane babbling of Mr Straw. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4291388.stm

Labour MP (Jarrow), Stephen Hepburn – Has a conviction for assault following an incident in South Shields Town Hall a few years ago when Hepburn beat up a Labour councillor.

Labour MP`s Bob Marshall-Andrews (Medway), and Jim Dowd (Lewisham West) – Had a punch-up in the Members Lobby of the Houses of Parliament in 2005, and had to be separated by fellow MP`s. The fight reportedly broke out after Mr Marshall-Andrews called Mr Dowd a “faggot”. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Marshall-Andrews

Labour MP, John Heppell – Sank his teeth into another Labour MP, Bob Marshall-Andrews (yes, him again – see above) during a fight in the House of Commons bar in 2005. Mr Heppell is also known as `knuckles` in political circles, after having tattoos of the words `love` and `hate` removed from the knuckles of his hands. http://www.order-order.com/2006/02/whip-bites-man-story.html

Labour MP (Renfrew West and Inverclyde/Scotland), Tommy Graham – Expelled from Party for his part in a smear campaign (involving allegations of AIDS and a homosexual affair with an underage boy), which drove a rival Labour MP – Gordon McMaster - to commit suicide. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Graham

Labour Councillor (Renfrewshire/Scotland), Paul Mack – Another key player in the Gordon McMaster suicide affair. Also has a conviction for assaulting a woman. http://www.alba.org.uk/paisleysouth/smears14.html

Labour Councillor (Edinburgh/Scotland), Lorna Shiels – Arrested and charged with assaulting a Police Officer in 2005, after allegedly punching a policeman in the face during a fracas outside an Edinburgh nightclub. The incident arose after club doormen, concerned perhaps, that admitting Labour Party councillors might lower the tone of the establishment, refused to allow Ms Sheils entry. The charges were later dropped. http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=712962004

Former Labour Councillor (East Lothian/Scotland), Charles Ingle, who resigned the Labour Party whip in 2003 to become an Independent – Charged with breach of the peace in 2005, following an incident involving Mr Ingle and a council official. http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=92632005

Labour Peer, Member of the Scottish Parliament, former Scottish Sports and Culture Minister and former MP (Glasgow), Lord Watson of Invergowie – Convicted and jailed for 16 months in 2005 for Arson. Watson had been caught on CCTV attempting to burn down the five star Prestonfield House Hotel in Edinburgh by setting fire to a pair of curtains. The Labour Lord was apparently enraged by Hotel staff refusing to serve him wine due to his abusive and threatening behaviour http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4156/is_20041114/ai_n12592165

Labour Councillor (Bromsgrove/Redditch), Athol Deakin - Convicted of assaulting a neighbour in 2006. Given 100 hours community service, and ordered to pay compensation to his victim plus costs. http://www.thisisbromsgrove.co.uk/mostpopular.var.1158558.mostviewed.i_will_fight_on_vows_councillor.php

ASLEF Union boss, and Labour activist, Martin Samways – Punched a woman union official in the face during a drunken brawl at a summer barbecue, according to evidence heard at an employment tribunal for fellow ASLEF bigwig Shaun Brady, who was sacked by the union for his part in the fight. Mr Brady told the 2005 hearing: “Julie Atkinson walked past, returning from the toilet. He (Samways) lashed out at her, saying “you c***”, and hit her in the face. I could see blood”. Samways resigned after the incident. http://www.lse.co.uk/ShowStory.asp?story=WU2619020P&catid=6

Labour Councillor (Barnsley/Yorkshire), Jack Brown - Fined £250 and bound over to keep the peace in 2005, following an incident at a Mayoral lunch where Brown had attacked another councillor, Roy Miller, and threatened to kill him. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/derbyshire/4349966.stm

CORRUPTION:

• Labour COUNCILLOR has been charged in connection with alleged misconduct during last year's local election. Miranda Grell, 28, who represents Leyton ward, today was charged with four counts of making false statements contrary to Section 106 (1) of the Representation of the People Act 1983. The Labour councillor will appear at Waltham Forest Magistrates' Court on Tuesday, April 17. http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news/walthamforest/walthamforestnews/display.var.1322120.0.councillor_on_criminal_charges.php

• Labour Councillor (Sandwell/West Midlands), Mohamed Niwaz - Convicted of illegally obtaining £20,000 in Housing Grants.

Labour MP Mohammed Sarwar (Britain's first Asian MP – Glasgow), was the subject of a major News of the World investigation in 1997, into bribery and corruption. Despite this, the massive Asian population in his constituency keeps him safely in his seat. http://www.bbc.co.uk/politics97/news/05/0521/sarwar.shtml

Labour Councillor (Cowes/Isle of White), Bernard Buckle - Resigned his seat in 2004 after being charged with benefit fraud. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/4187839.stm

Labour MP (Newark), Fiona Jones - Convicted in 1999 of knowingly making a false declaration of election expenses and sentenced to community service. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lincolnshire/6324231.stm

Labour Councillor (Merton/London), Tony Giles – Convicted and jailed for 10 months in 2005 for stealing £18,000 of public money – money, which had been intended for the upkeep, cleaning and maintenance of his own neighbourhood on the West Barnes Lane Housing Estate, before being embezzled by the Labour crook. http://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/archive/display.var.582333.0.exmerton_councillor_admits_stealing_16k_grants.php

Labour Councillor (Tower Hamlets/London), Ataur Rahman – Suspended by the council in 2004, following Police investigation into fraud at the local St Dunstan’s Bangladeshi Community Resource Centre, where Councillor Rahman was the Finance Officer.

Labour Party Treasurer (Scarborough and Whitby), Paul Murphy - Convicted of embezzlement in 2004 and jailed for 6 months, after stealing more than £9000 from the party’s accounts to pay for mortgage repayments and a holiday in Jamaica.

Labour Councillor, (Stoke/Staffordshire), and later, Chairman of Heywood and Middleton Labour Party (Cheshire), Ian Sharman – Convicted and jailed for 4 months in 1993 for stealing money from a charity. Received another 18-month prison sentence in 2002 after being convicted on 17 counts of theft, fraud, and furnishing false information. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/1842663.stm

Labour Councillor (Barnsley/Yorkshire), Alan Schofield – At the centre of corruption allegations in 2005 after it emerged he had £17,000 worth of home improvements, including decorative double gates, new fencing, tiling, and double glazing paid for by local taxpayers. Council tradesmen were ordered not to talk about it to anyone, and not to wear council uniforms or use council vehicles while carrying out the work on his home. The scandal only emerged after opposition councillors obtained documents under the Freedom of Information Act. One such document was a letter from a council joiner who wrote: “We were told that no one else must know that we were working on that property”.http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article1204517.ece

Labour Councillor (Blaenau Gwent/Wales), Bernard Price - Convicted on 2 charges of false accounting, fined and ordered to do community service in 1999. Price was caught defrauding the taxpayer to line his pockets by fiddling his expenses during an official trip to Brussels. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/440837.stm

Labour Councillor (Westminster/London), Josephine Ohene-Djan – Convicted and sentenced to 120 hours of community service in 2005, for committing twelve thousand pounds worth of housing benefit fraud. Most defendants convicted of fraud on such a large scale would expect to face a short prison sentence. Whether or not Mrs Ohene-Djan`s status as an African Labour councillor played any part in the leniency afforded to her, remains open to question… http://politics.guardian.co.uk/localgovernment/story/0,9061,1503964,00.html

Labour treasurer, Elizabeth Wilson - Convicted on one charge of embezzlement and fined £2,400 after helping herself to £11,000 of funds from the Motherwell and Wilshaw branch of the Labour Party. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/3611625.stm

Labour Councillor (Sutton/Surry), Gary Stagg – Convicted on 2 counts of corruption and jailed for 18 months in 1998 after being caught trying to solicit cash backhanders from a local charity in return for supporting a land deal they were pursuing. The Labour sleazebag was caught red handed attempting to trouser a £60,000 bung from the charity after being secretly filmed and taped by undercover police officers. Stagg was recorded saying: “I have to be careful. Tony’s (Blair’s) lot would not like this and I could be imprisoned.” http://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/archive/display.var.62307.0.labour_regret_staggs_crime.php

Labour Councillor (Barnet/London), Alan Sloam – Forced to resign in 2004 after being convicted of attempted fraud. Sloam tried to deceive Camden Council over four parking fines handed out to his son, when he wrote a letter on council notepaper falsely claiming a disabled friend had been using the car when the tickets were issued. http://www.barnettimes.co.uk/news/barnetcouncil/display.var.570344.0.race_on_for_council_seat.php

Labour Party Euro MP, David Martin is currently being investigated for an alleged expenses fraud involving `hundreds of thousands of pounds`. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/scotland/3687465.stm

Labour Councillor (Wakefield/Yorkshire), Martyn Ward - Convicted of defrauding the Child Support Agency in 2004. http://www.standardsboard.co.uk/Casesummaries/Casesummaries/W/WakefieldCityof/Name,1777,en.html

Labour Councillor (Manchester/Cheshire), Damien O’Connor – Convicted of housing benefit fraud in 2000. Resigned in disgrace from the Labour Party but refused to step down from his council seat, which he eventually lost to another Labour candidate. Has now joined the UK Independence Party and stood for them at the 2005 General Election. http://www.manchesterlabour.org.uk/news.asp?sid=316&itemID=107

Labour councillors in Doncaster/Yorkshire – 23 Convicted and 6 jailed for massive fraud, corruption and theft of public funds between 1998 and 2001, in what became known as the `Donnygate` scandal. Investigation also uncovered massive Labour Party corruption in neighboring Rotherham. After the convictions, not a single one of the sleazy Labour crooks was expelled from the Party, and 3 of them even managed to continue serving as councillors. Cases included: Cllr Jack Riley – Jailed for 28 days for falsely claiming £214. Cllr David Jobes – Jailed for 6 months for falsifying expense claims totaling £3,700. Cllr Derek Hughes – Fined £500 after pleading guilty to one charge of falsifying an expense claim form. Cllr Mick Collins – Jailed for 8 months for expenses fraud totaling £2000. Also accused of stealing almost £2000 from the local Labour Party. The judge ruled this charge would not be proceeded with, but ordered compensation to be paid to the local branch. Cllr Les Dyson – Jailed for 4 months for expense claim fraud totaling £325. Cllr Pat Mullaney – 200 hours community service for expense claim fraud totaling £1,290. Cllr Steve Judge – 120 hours community service for expense claim fraud. Cllr Terry Sellars – Suspended 3 month jail sentence for expense claim fraud. Ordered to re-pay £490. Cllr Tony Sellars – Suspended 3 month jail sentence for expense claim fraud. Ordered to re-pay £664. Cllr Roland Cox – Given two 6-week jail terms to run concurrently and suspended for a year for expense claim fraud involving rail fares and hotel accommodation. Cllr Michael McAteer – Fined £250 for expense claim fraud involving hotel accommodation. Cllr Paul Farley – 120 hours community service for expense claim fraud involving hotels and train fares totaling £243. Cllr Malcolm Glover – 3-month jail sentence suspended for a year on each of three charges of expense claim fraud and ordered to pay £1000 costs. Cllr Gordon Jones – Fined £250 plus costs for claiming £140 for a rail ticket, which actually cost him £66. Cllr Norman Fisher – Jailed for 9 months for expense claim fraud involving hotel accommodation. Cllr Brian Day – Fined £300 plus costs for expense claim fraud involving hotel accommodation. Cllr Jean Elwick – Given a 2-month suspended jail sentence and ordered to pay £750 in costs for expense claim fraud totaling £200.50. Cllr Michael Farrington – Given a 2-month suspended jail sentence for expense claim fraud. Cllr, and former Mayor Jack Meredith – Given a 4-month suspended jail sentence after pleading guilty to six counts of expense claim fraud. Cllr Raymond Stockhill – Jailed for 2 years for taking £30,000 in bribes to exert influence over a local planning application. Cllr Peter Birks – Jailed for 4 years for taking a £160,000 house as a bribe to influence a local planning application. http://society.guardian.co.uk/councilsincrisis/comment/0,,666246,00.html

Labour Party Councillor (Blackburn/Lancashire), Mohammed Hussein – Convicted and jailed for 3 years and 7 months in 2005 after pleading guilty to postal vote fraud relating to local elections in 2002. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lancashire/4425519.stm

Labour Councillor (Havant/Hampshire), Ray Race – Convicted and jailed for 4 months in 2002 for ballot rigging. Race was arrested again the following year for threatening a witness who had helped to convict him. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2551157.stm

Labour Councillor (Cambridge/Cambridgeshire), Berni Callagan, who was the prospective first black Mayor of the city – Convicted on 4 charges of benefit fraud in 2005. Given a two-year conditional discharge and ordered to pay £2000 costs. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cambridgeshire/4094908.stm

Labour Councillor (Glamorgan/Wales), Shaun Stringer – Forced to resign following Police investigation into financial corruption. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/545077.stm

Labour MP (Leicester/Leistershire) and former Cabinet Minister, Keith Vaz - Investigated for fraud and corruption before quietly leaving his Europe Minister post with `health problems`. According to his former Secretary, Vaz does absolutely nothing in his constituency other than help local Pakistanis with their Immigration cases (which also helps to explain the `whites a minority` status of Leicester and the safe Labour seat of Mr Vaz). http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/1808303.stm

Labour Councillor (Paisley/Scotland), Sheila Howat – Convicted of housing benefit fraud in 1997. Also given a token suspension by the local Labour Party, although they refused to sack her, despite her admission she was defrauding the council she was a member of. http://www.scottishpolitics.org/paisleysouth/smears29.html

Labour MP (Walsall/West Midlands), and former Cabinet Minister, John Stonehouse – Convicted and jailed for 7 years (served 3 years) in 1976 for Theft, Fraud, and Deception. His crimes related to a string of fraudulent business ventures and the theft of money from charities. Before his eventual capture by Police in Melbourne, Australia, Stonehouse had famously faked his own suicide in 1974 in order to evade justice, and dump his wife and daughter to shack up with his mistress. In 2006 newly released documents revealed that as a young MP, Stonehouse spent ten years as a paid spy for Warsaw Pact communist regimes during the height of the cold war. Had this come to light while he was in office it may well have brought down the Government of Harold Wilson, who was himself rumored to have been a KGB agent. Acts of high treason within the Labour Party are not just a phenomenon of the Blair era it would seem. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stonehouse

Labour Mayor (Runcorn/Cheshire), Pat Tyrell – Arrested on suspicion of Electoral Fraud in August 2004. Remanded on Police bail, pending further enquiries. Tyrell’s daughter, Jean was also arrested at the same time, on suspicion of forgery. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/3559000.stm

Former Labour Councillor (Tower Hamlets/London), Nasir Uddin – Convicted, along with his younger brother, Ain Uddin in 2006 of stealing £30,000 from a local education Authority scheme for underprivileged youngsters during his time in office between 2001 and 2003. Mr Uddin`s tenure as a local councillor was also notable for his failure to turn up to any council meetings for six months, and citing `institutional racists` within the Labour Party, as his reason for non-attendance. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4873312.stm

Labour Councillor (Tower Hamlets/London), Kumar Murshid, formerly a top advisor to London’s (night)Mayor, `Red Ken` Livingstone – On trial in 2006 on theft charges totaling almost £240,000, including £40,000 stolen from the local youth scheme from the above mentioned case. http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-10211014-details/Mayor+aide+in+fraud+probe/article.do;jsessionid=14J3GcHpT3jsZntf1qB12z3yJMlv6zQV51JBqMnYg9mvc05c2Z1D%21-1569186901%21-1407319226%217001%21-1

Six Labour Councillors (Aston & Bordsley Green/Birmingham), Muhammed Afzal, Mohammed Islam, Mohammed Kazi, Shafaq Ahmed, Shah Jahan, and Ayaz Khan – Convicted in 2005 on ballot-rigging charges, relating to postal vote fraud at the local elections of 2004. http://politics.guardian.co.uk/localgovernment/story/0,9061,1451923,00.html

Former Labour Mayor (Peterborough), Mohammed Choudhary – Currently the subject of a police investigation into alleged electoral fraud in several of the city’s wards during the local elections of 2004. http://politics.guardian.co.uk/voting/story/0,,1851556,00.html

The 2004 local elections in Reading/Berkshire are currently the subject of a police probe, after evidence of postal vote fraud was uncovered. The investigation centres on the towns Redlands ward, and Labours winning candidates, Haji Faraz Khan, Peter Kays, and deputy Mayor Riaz Chaudri. All three are refusing to make any comment on their `victories`.

Labour Mayor (Sefton/Merseyside), John Walker – Arrested and charged in 2006 with benefit fraud. Walkers March trial date was then adjourned until April after he claimed he was too desperately ill to attend. However, just 48 hours after dodging his date with the judge, the brave Mayor apparently managed to drag himself from his deathbed to cheer Liverpool on to a 5-1 Premiership win over Fulham at Anfield, where he was photographed by the media. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/england/merseyside/4785752.stm

Labour Councillor (Oldham/Lancashire), Fida Hussain - Arrested and charged with money laundering offences in 2007, following a five-month police investigation into his financial affairs. Released on bail pending further enquiries. http://www.theasiannews.co.uk/news/s/224/224554_councillor_says_he_has_nothing_to_hide.html

Labour Councillor (Rotherham/Yorkshire), former Deputy Leader of Rotherham Council, and classic `Champagne socialist`, Garvin Reed – Convicted and jailed for 3 years in 2002, for stealing £172,000 from a charity (National Local Government Forum Against Poverty), which he spent on high living, lavish hotels and prostitutes. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2511047.stm

Labour Deputy Mayor (Haringey/London), Gideon Bull – Suspended from office for a month in 2005, after it emerged that council contractors painted his house for free `in error`. Forced to make a groveling apology and pay the cost of the work. http://www.hwgca.org.uk/text/news_detail.php?nid=393

Labour Councillor (Islington/London), Steve Judge - Led a revolt among the Labour group on Islington Council against a Lib-Dem proposal to lobby the Government to outlaw convicted fraudsters from serving as councillors. This resulted in the motion being effectively quashed. Councillor Judge has, surprisingly enough, a conviction for Fraud. http://society.guardian.co.uk/councilsincrisis/comment/0,,400417,00.html

Former Labour MP (Reading East), Jane Griffiths – Arrested in 2005 after failing to appear at a court hearing on charges of £29,000 worth of tax evasion. After her election in 1997, Griffiths went on to become the first Labour MP in a decade to be de-selected by the party in 2004. She was succeeded as Labours 2005 Reading East Parliamentary candidate by convicted toilet nonce-case Tony Page, who features in the sex crimes part of this list. Vote Labour! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4292884.stm

A COUNCILLOR could be facing a jail sentence after dishonestly claiming £6,500 in benefits. Redcar and Cleveland councillor, David Tomlin, 64, pleaded guilty to three counts of false representation at Teesside Magistrates Court on Wednesday. Tomlin, who represents the Normanby ward, has been a Labour councillor for around 16 years. It is understood he has resigned from the Labour party. Tomlin declined to comment on whether he would continue as a councillor. http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/topstories/display.var.1196206.0.councillor_may_face_jail_over_benefits_claim.php

A FORMER mayor and serving councillor is facing trial in the New Year after being charged with a £13,000 benefit fraud. John McGowan, 53, of Ribble Way, Low Moor, Clitheroe, is alleged to have been caught playing golf, shopping and even doing a paper round while claiming a high level of disability allowance.

McGowan is both a Ribble Valley councillor and Clitheroe town councillor, representing the Edisford and Low Moor ward. He was the Mayor of Clitheroe for two years from 1997.

He has not been suspended from his role on either council.

The Labour councillor has more than 16 years local government experience. He defected to Labour from the Liberal Democrats in 1999 after a row that saw him disposed from his role as deputy town mayor in Clitheroe. On Ribble Valley Council McGowan is on the housing committee, has a responsibility for the overview and scrutiny of council services and sits on the parish council liaison board.
http://www.thisislancashire.co.uk/news/headlines/display.var.1090205.0.exmayor_on_fraud_charge.php

OTHER:

William Straw - Son of Labour Foreign Secretary, and former Home Secretary – Jack Straw, was cautioned by Police for drug dealing in 2002, amid frantic Government attempts to cover up the matter, and gag the media as to his identity. Jack Straw also has a brother who was convicted of a sex attack on a schoolgirl. Lovely family! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/916179.stm

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1998/01/13/ntoke13.html

In 2004 Tony Blair appointed his close friend/crony and colleague of his wife - Ken Macdonald as the new Director of Public Prosecutions, despite the fact he has a drugs conviction. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3149417.stm

Labour Council Leader (York/Yorkshire), Rod Hills MBE – Stood trial in 2002 on various charges, including Blackmail, Witness Intimidation, Perverting the Course of Justice, Soliciting a Woman for Prostitution, and Wasting Police Time, but was eventually cleared on all charges, except one for dangerous driving. The following year he was arrested again, although Police refused to say what the latest investigation was in connection with. http://archive.thenorthernecho.co.uk/2003/2/6/104799.html

Labour Councillor (Longdendale/Manchester), Sean Parker-Perry – Arrested on suspicion of stealing a car in November 2004. Bailed until February 2005. http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/136/136531_councillor_arrested_in_stolen_car_inquiry_.html

Former Labour Cabinet Minister (Education), Stephen Twigg – Arrested and fined £50 in 2005 after being found `drunk and incapable` in the street. http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/view.php?id=259

Homosexual mass murderer, Dennis Nilsen, who strangled and dismembered 16 young men in the 1980`s, was also a highly active member of Labour fringe groups such as the Anti-Nazi League, and the SWP. That’s when he wasn’t busy boiling peoples heads in a pot, or masturbating over the corpses of his victims. http://www.heretical.com/British/dnilsen.html

Labour Councillor (Blackburn/Lancashire), Hussain Akhtar - Fined £3,500 and ordered to pay costs, following 3 court cases in 2 years over public health violations at his shop `Akhtars Food Store`. Some of the exotic eastern delights discovered by inspectors at Cllr Akhtars shop included cockroaches, a dead mouse, and rodent droppings in Bombay mix. http://www.asianimage.co.uk/news/latest/display.var.1250173.0.councillor_owns_500_00_house.php

Labour MP (Leeds/Yorkshire), Jon Trickett – Has described 7/7 suicide bomber Mohammed Sidique Khan, as being “a family friend”. The Islamic terrorist, who took part in the mass-murder of 52 innocent London commuters, had previously been taken on a guided tour of the House of Commons in 2004, as a personal guest of the Labour Member for Hemsworth constituency.

Labour Peer, Lord Ahmed, in another gesture of warmth and solidarity towards Britain's Al-Qaeda community, invited Islamic terror suspect Mahmoud Abu Rideh into the House of Commons as his personal guest in 2006, where he sat in the commons public gallery and listened to a debate. Rideh, detained in Belmarsh prison under emergency laws following 9/11 and suspected of being a money-man for groups linked to Osama Bin Laden, said of his day out “It was very interesting”.

Labour Junior Minister (Northern Ireland), James Dunn – Convicted of shoplifting in 1979. Dunn was caught trying to steal two ties and a sweatshirt from an Army & Navy store. He later joined the SDP and lost his seat.

Former Labour MP (Northampton), Tony Clarke (lost his seat at the 2005 General Election) - denies ever being a member of West Hams notorious `Inter-City Firm` of football hooligans. The former Rt Honourable Member for Northampton South however, has yet to provide an innocent explanation for the tattoo on his chest, bearing (according to `The Sunday Times`) the West Ham UTD club badge, below the letters `I.C.F.`` http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/article481554.ece

Tory Criminals

SEX:

Tory Party General election candidate, Michael Powell – Convicted and jailed for 3 years for downloading hardcore child porn.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/1999/07/13/teacher_found_guilty_of_kiddie/

Tory Party Councillor (Sandwell/West Midlands), Alan Burkitt - Convicted of pimping in 2007, after he admitted prostituting his girlfriend (who had an IQ of just 52) for £50 a time. Cllr Burkitt, originally elected as a LibDem councillor in 1996 before defecting to the Tories 3 years later, was given a suspended 1-year jail sentence.

http://www.24dash.com/localgovernment/18137.htm

Tory Party Councillor (Wickbar/Bristol) Roger Talboys – Convicted and jailed for 6 years for multiple sex attacks on children.

Tory Party Councillor (Wallasey/Merseyside), Michael Howden – Convicted and jailed for 5-and-a-half years in 1997, for the rape of a teenage girl, and also for sexually assaulting another teenage girl on about 20 separate occasions. http://archive.runcornandwidnesworld.co.uk/1997/2/6/22814.html

Tory Party Vice-Chairman of Welsh Conservatives, Andrew Baker – Received a banning order for stalking women.

Tory Party Council Leader (Dartford/Kent), Kenneth Leadbeater – Convicted on 14 counts of downloading kiddie porn photos of young boys in 2006. Given a 3-year community rehabilitation order, a 3-year sexual prevention order, and placed on the sex offenders register for 5 years. http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/localheadlines/display.var.935392.0.former_council_leaders_porn_shame.php

Tory Party MP (Billericay/Essex) Harvey Proctor – Convicted and fined a total of £1,450 in 1987, for sex offences of a sado-masochistic nature against teenage boys, and was forced to resign. http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/16/newsid_2524000/2524727.stm

Tory Party MP (Harrow East), and Foreign Office Minister, Ian Harvey – Resigned in disgrace in 1958 after being caught by police with another man behind some bushes in St James Park, London. On the way to the police station Harvey tried to make a run for it but was recaptured. Charges of gross indecency were later dropped, although both men were fined £5. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Harvey_%28politician%29

Tory Party Councillor and former Mayor (Wrexham/Wales), Michael Morris – Convicted and put on probation for 2 years in 1996, for the indecent assault of another man, which was captured on CCTV. Forced to resign from his job as a school bursar, although the `Party of family values` Conservatives were quite happy for him to continue as a councillor. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/north_east/2998019.stm

Tory Party MP (Eastleigh), Stephen Milligan – Found dead in his flat in February 1994, during the wholesome, traditional family values Conservative Government of John `Back to Basics` Major. Milligan was discovered tied to a chair, naked except for stockings and suspenders, with a plastic bag over his head and an orange stuffed into his mouth. He was believed to have accidentally asphyxiated, whilst pleasuring himself during some kind of grotesque solo bondage and self-strangulation sex act. http://www.newsmedianews.com/milligan.shtml

Tory Party Councillor (Whoberley/Coventry), Peter Stidworthy – Convicted and jailed for 15 months in 2003 for the indecent assault of a 15-year old boy, and possession of four thousand pornographic photos of young boys. http://iccoventry.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100localnews/page.cfm?objectid=12420373&method=full&siteid=50003

Tory Party Councillor (Stratford-upon-Avon) Christopher Pilkington – Convicted of downloading hardcore child porn on his PC in 2003. Placed on sex offenders register and forced to resign. http://www.standardsboard.co.uk/Pressoffice/Pressreleasearchive/Pressreleases2004/title,352,en.html

Tory Party Councillor (Colchester/Essex), Douglas Pallet - Convicted of Assault occasioning actual bodily harm in 1998 after waging an 18-month campaign of stalking and harassment against his former mistress, Lynda Guglielmi. Following the break-up of their relationship, Pallett began his deranged vendetta by painting graffiti all over Colchester calling Mrs Guglielmi a `whore`. He then sent her a stream of obscene, sexually explicit and racist letters made from cutting out letters from newspapers. Not content with this, the bunny-boiling Tory nutcase went on to distribute self made cards in telephone boxes near to Mrs Guglielmi`s house containing her home contact details, offering the sale of illicit drugs and her services as a prostitute (needless to say, the perfectly respectable Mrs Guglielmi, a postmistress, has no involvement in either vice or narcotics of any kind). The court heard how Pallets psychotic hate campaign had turned Mrs Gulielmi from being a ”strong, calm, and composed” person into a “despairing neurotic” needing counseling and anti-depressants. Sentence on Pallet was adjourned for psychiatric reports and he was remanded in custody. http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19981014/ai_n14200832

Tory Party Council Leader (Portsmouth/Hampshire), Freddie Emery Wallis – Charged with sexual assaults on 2 teenage boys in 2001. Details to follow. http://archive.romseyadvertiser.co.uk/2001/6/14/74339.html

Tory Party Mayor (North Tyneside), Chris Morgan – Forced to resign in 2003, after being arrested twice in 2 weeks, for indecent assault on a 15-year old girl, and for suspicion of downloading child porn. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/3303439.stm

Tory Councillor (Newport/Wales), Dean Jenkins - Convicted and jailed for 14 months in 2005 for the possesion and distribution of thousands of pornographic images of young boys. Jenkins, caught as part of the `Operation Ore` kiddie porn investigation, was also place on the sex offenders register for 10 years and disqualified from working with children. After the case, computer crime investigator Gary Probert said: “In 35 years of working with Gwent Police, these are among the most horrendous images we have come across”. http://archive.southwalesargus.co.uk/2005/7/2/50589.html

Tory Party Liaison Manager on the London Assembly, Douglas Campbell, who's job includes running the Tory GLA website - Arrested in 2004 for allegedly downloading child porn. He is currently suspended while the Police investigation continues. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2754255.stm

Tory Party Mayor (St Albans/Hertfordshire), Gordon Myland – Currently being investigated by the Standards Board for England after a local woman complained of verbal and sexual harassment. Myland is also the subject of an official complaint to St Albans District Council from a local school. This separate allegation relates to the inappropriate `kissing` of schoolgirls during an awards ceremony, which the 69-year old Tory Mayor is reported to have described as “a perk of the job”.

Former Tory Party councillor (Bradford/Yorkshire), Jim Merrick – Received a 9-month jail sentence (suspended) and placed on the sex offenders register for 10 years in 2001 after being convicted of multiple sex attacks on little girls between the ages of 9 and 12. The 69 year-old Tory nonce had lured as many as 13 youngsters (although convicted on only 2 of them) into his home before giving them various treats and plying them with alcohol. The court heard that Merrick would then get the girls to shower in front of him, so that he could `inspect` them.

Tory Party MEP (Surrey), Tom Spencer - Caught smuggling marijuana, cocaine, and gay porn through customs, following a trip to Amsterdam in 2003. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/269329.stm

Tory Party Official (Secretary of Hackney and South Shoreditch Conservative Association), Stephen Mertens – Convicted and jailed for 10 years for repeatedly raping a six-year old girl. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/3911955.stm

Tory Party Cabinet Minister, Sir Ian Horobin MP – Convicted and jailed for 4 years for indecency in 1952, after paying young boys for sex http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:1Rf6RNENUBQJ:hallcarpenter.tripod.com/hca/1962.pdf+Sir+%22Ian+Horobin%22+MP&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=17&gl=uk&client=firefox-a

Tory Party Councillor (Blandford/North Dorset), Mike Oram – Convicted on child porn charges in 2004. Although he eventually resigned, the Conservative Party were (according to Oram himself) apparently reluctant to sack him, and be forced to call a losable by-election for North Dorset District Council, where the Tories have a wafer-thin majority. The desperate and dying modern day Tories would seemingly rather have a convicted paedophile represent the people of Dorset, than risk loosening their slender grasp upon local power. Such are the sickening depths to which the Party of Churchill has descended. http://archive.thisisdorset.net/2004/4/16/68147.html

Tory Party Councillor (Westbury/Wiltshire), Christine Sheppard – Issued with a police warning in 2005 for harassment. Following a trivial dispute about a neighbors’ son bouncing a ball near to her car, Councillor Sheppard forged her neighbors’ signature in order have a deluge of hardcore porn and sex toys delivered to their house for six months. Despite the scandal, she was allowed to remain as a councillor. Sheppard’s victim, Theresa Horsley said: “When the brochures first came through the letter box we were shocked, then absolutely disgusted. I felt violated. This stuff was coming into our house, a place which is supposed to be our sanctuary. I have young children who enjoy opening the post. We just can’t believe that somebody with her responsibility could have such low morals”. Quite. http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=6&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.standardsboard.co.uk%2FCasesummaries%2FCasesummaries%2FW%2FWestburyTownCouncil%2FName%2C3304%2Cen.html&ei=EkUaRtjSMYqE0gTposzWDQ&usg=__ZqxZ5--aXq1ogRLifIGTn6xcJnw=&sig2=a8lPKo2qqZZwrS_dTGOYZg

Tory Councillor (Tendring/Essex), Michael Robinson - Convicted on 7 counts of indecent assault against 4 different women in 1999. http://archive.echo-news.co.uk/1999/2/23/224841.html

Tory Councillor (Felixstowe/Suffolk), David Smith - Accepted a police caution for downloading child porn in 2004. Placed on the sex offenders register for 5 years. http://www.iwar.org.uk/pipermail/infocon/2004-February/001064.html

Tory Party MP, Michael Brown, who lost his seat at the 1997 election - Exposed by the News of the World in 1994 as having a homosexual affair with a 20 year old man, when the age of consent for gay sex was 21. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Brown_%28UK_politician%29

A Tory frontbench MP has responded publicly for the first time to calls for him to resign after he had a gay relationship. Greg Barker, MP for Bexhill and Battle, in East Sussex, had separated from his wife when his relationship which has now ended, became public. Some local party activists have accused him of embarrassing the party. But speaking to BBC South East Today, he said most people had been "kind and understanding" and he would stay on.

"I find that all the constituents that I talk to want me to get on and sort out their problems and are fed up with hearing about mine," the environment spokesman said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/southern_counties/6182416.stm

VIOLENCE:

Tory Party Councillor (Folkestone – in former Leader, Michael Howard’s constituency), Robert Richdale – 41-year history of crime, involving 30 convictions and 5 prison sentences. Richdales enormous criminal record, which covers 10 pages of A4 paper, includes convictions for assault, theft, causing death by dangerous driving, forgery, drugs offences, possession of an offensive weapon, and sex attacks against underage schoolgirls. The Tory Party election campaign literature described Richdale as… “A family man” who had a “compassionate personality” http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/3899161.stm

Former Tory Councillor (Doncaster/Yorkshire), Louise Burrows – Convicted of assaulting 3 young children (2 boys and a girl), with a whip in 2002. Sentenced to a 6-month community rehabilitation order and ordered to pay compensation to her victims. After the case, Borrows applied to join Doncaster Labour Party. http://www.the-villager.co.uk/Archives.asp?FILE=20020909016&ACT=LEG

Tory Peer, Lord Glentoran – Court appearance in Spain in 2005 for allegedly assaulting and injuring three Spanish border guards at the frontier checkpoint at Gibraltar following a row over duty free limits. Inquiries continue. http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article311068.ece

Tory Party Council Leader (Prestbury/Manchester), Peter Burns – Suddenly resigned on the eve of local council elections (leaving the Tories in the lurch with no candidate to field in one of their own seats), just prior to his court appearance on charges of `Using threatening, abusive, or insulting words or behaviour` to staff at his local hospital. http://www.macclesfield-express.co.uk/news/s/94/94433_burns_pub_row_a_storm_in_a_tea_cup.html

Tory Party MP (Shipley/Yorkshire), Philip Davies – Attacked a Labour MP, Stephen Pound (Ealing/London) following a particularly vigorous and engaging political debate at Talksport Radio, London in 2005. According to the radio host, Ian Collins: “It was an absolutely ridiculous sight, two grown men in their Savile Row suits brawling as if they were in a playground. They were in a bear hug and really going for it. They were very serious. We broke it up but as they were leaving, one taunted the other and it broke out all over again”. After the fight Mr Pound, who is Labour’s Law and Order spokesman, was taken to hospital and treated for a suspected broken rib. http://www.ealingtimes.co.uk/news/localnews/display.var.642758.0.mp_talks_after_on_air_scuffle.php

Tory Party MP (Henley), Boris Johnson – Caught on tape in 2002 plotting to have a man beaten up by a hired thug. The man was a journalist who had written an unsympathetic piece about Johnson’s close friend – Convicted fraudster, Darius Guppy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darius_Guppy

Tory Party Councillor (Birmingham), John Lines – Convicted of Assault in 1983, after battering a neighbour senseless with a plank of wood following a dispute over a greenhouse. Others unfortunate enough to have Lines as a neighbour claimed he was also threatening towards them, and abusive to elderly women living in the street. In another separate incident, Lines was cautioned by Police after violently assaulting a barman who had refused to serve him booze after hours. http://icbirmingham.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100localnews/tm_objectid=14533860%26method=full%26siteid=50002-name_page.html

A Bath councillor has been cautioned by police after a physical assault on a woman civil servant.

Cllr Brian Webber, a Conservative member of Bath and North East Somerset Council representing the city centre Abbey Ward, was acting in his role as treasurer to the Sydney Gardens Bowling Club when he pushed the woman against a wall during a discussion over valuation rates.

According to her husband, the 45-year-old mother-of-two could not move her arm for several hours after the incident and suffered sleepless nights as a result of the pain.
http://www.thisisbath.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=163490&command=displaId=163047

A LEADING Worthing borough councillor has been charged with threatening to kill a woman. He is also accused of assaulting the 25-year-old woman, whom he formerly employed as an au pair for his two children.

Paul High, 50, of Compton Avenue, Goring, who represents Heene ward, is the Tory council's cabinet member for culture, leisure and sport.

He strongly denies assaulting and threatening Susannah Krammarics in October. He also refutes the woman's claim that the pair were engaged. Mr High, who lives with his two sons from a previous marriage, was charged on Tuesday and will appear before Worthing magistrates on January 24.
http://www.worthingtoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=472&ArticleID=1968964

CORRUPTION:

Tory Party Councillor (Dudley/West Midlands), Abdul Quadus, who was also chairman of the Dudley Police Committee and a Tory Party spokesman on crime – Convicted and jailed for 6 months in 2003 for passport fraud and assisting illegal immigration from his native country – Pakistan. http://archive.stourbridgenews.co.uk/2003/4/10/26649.html

Former Tory Party Cabinet Minister, Jonathan Aitkin – Convicted and jailed for 18 months in 1999, for Perjury and Conspiracy to Pervert the Course of Justice. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Aitken

Tory Party MP (Mid Bedfordshire), and former Tory environment spokesman, Jonathan Sayeed – Suspended from Parliament in 2005 for lining his pockets by charging American tourists £800 for guided `behind the scenes` tours of the House of Commons, as well as fraudulently claiming housing allowances to which he was not entitled. http://www.politics.co.uk/party-politics/sayeed-survives-de-selection-$13009982.htm

Tory Party councillor (Westminster/London), Richard Stirling-Gibb – Jailed for 3 months in 2000 after being convicted on 10,000 worth of housing benefit fraud. Hilariously, Stirling-Gibb was caught as a direct result of the Tory controlled Westminster council setting up a phone hotline for local residents to inform on benefit cheats!

Tory Party MEP (Eastern Region), Bashir Khanbhai, - Kicked off the Conservative list of approved candidates, after being caught fiddling thousands of pounds in travel expenses on the Brussels Gravy Train (which the BNP intend to de-rail at the earliest available opportunity). Mr Khanbhai`s website emphasized his crucial work as an MEP in… “attacking fraud and mismanagement in Brussels” http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3708255.stm

Tory Party Official (Enfield/London), Miles Parker – Convicted and fined £750 in 1992 for Electoral Fraud after being caught forging proxy votes for the Tory candidate. http://www.sovereignty.org.uk/features/demow/postal3.html

Tory Party Councillor (Hemel Hempstead/Hertfordshire), Michael Griffiths – Convicted and jailed for 18 months in 2002 for the attempted theft of almost £200,000 from the bank where he worked. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2321651.stm

Tory Party Councillor (Ravensthorpe/Peterborough), Gul Nawaz – Convicted and jailed for 2 months in 2002, along with his son, Akeel Ahmed, for Housing Benefit Fraud. http://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/viewarticle.aspx?sectionid=845&ArticleID=418929

Tory Party Councillor (Hackney/London), Isaac Leibowitz – Convicted and jailed for 6 months in 2001 for Electoral Fraud. Interestingly, Leibowitz was convicted alongside a co-defendant - Councillor Zev Lieberman - from the `opposition` Lib-Dem Party. Lieberman received a 4-month jail sentence for his part in the joint ballot-rigging venture. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/1211315.stm

Tory Party Councillor (Bradford/Yorkshire), Reis Khan – Arrested in 2005 following long running police investigation into postal vote fraud at the 2005 General Election. Khan is the second Bradford Tory councillor to be held on suspicion of ballot rigging in 2005, following the previous arrest of Councillor Jamshed Khan, after it emerged that 13 postal vote applications had been received for his home. This case was later dropped. http://archive.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/2006/4/20/187035.html

Tory Party Councillor (Margate), Colin Kiddell – Forced to resign in 2004, after Police investigation into his alleged theft and embezzlement of funds from the local `Dreamland` Amusement Park. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/3372585.stm

Former Tory Leader of Westminster Council, Dame Shirley Porter – Fled to Israel to evade justice after indulging in fraud, corruption and gerrymandering on a massive scale, during what became known as the `Homes for Votes` scandal. Multi-millionairess Porter was eventually persuaded to pay back £12 Million of the estimated £42 Million that the Tories corruption had cost local taxpayers. Her fellow fraudster, Tory Deputy Leader on the Council - David weeks, also escaped a jail sentence, but was forced to pay back £44,000. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3655851.stm

Former Tory Party Chairman and London Mayoral Candidate, Jeffrey Archer – Convicted and jailed for 4 years in 2001, for Perjury and Conspiracy to Pervert the Course of Justice. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1447880.stm

Tory Party Councillor (Redbridge/Essex), Suresh Kumar – Suspended from the councils Conservative group in 2005, following newspaper allegations he demanded bungs of up to ten thousand pounds to support local planning applications. Councillor Kumar is quoted telling an undercover News of the World reporter posing as a property developer: “Only people with power sort out these jobs. Brother, the Council is my own, the people are mine.” http://www.harrowtimes.co.uk/archive/display.var.557349.0.tories_suspend_colleague.php

Tory Party Councillor (Doncaster), John Dainty OBE – Convicted and jailed for 15 months in 2002 for corruption. Dainty, who was the leader of the Tory group on the council, was caught taking a £5,000 bribe from a local landowner to facilitate a planning application for a lucrative housing development in 1994. http://www.the-villager.co.uk/Archives.asp?FILE=20020809023&ACT=LEG

Tory Party Councillor, and former Mayor (Lambeth/London), Anthony Bays – Convicted and jailed for 4 months in 2004 for Electoral fraud, committed during a close-run council election in Guilford, Surry. The court heard how Bays had bullied an 80-year old woman into handing over her ballot paper, and then altered her vote for the Lib-Dem candidate into a Tory vote. The Lib-Dems (not averse to a bit of ballot-rigging themselves on occasion), won the election anyway, after a recount. http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=244172004

Tory Party councillor (Woking/Surry), Riasat Khan – Currently the subject of a police ballot-rigging investigation relating to his 2004 election `victory` in the towns Labour stronghold ward of Maybury and Sheerwater. http://www.stolenvotes.org.uk/sparpet

Tory Party 2001 Parliamentary Candidate (Torbay), Christian Sweeting - Charged with a firearms offence during the 2001 election campaign, which was later dropped. Properties linked to Mr Sweeting and another Conservative member were later raided by Devon and Cornwall Fraud Squad, in relation to alleged corruption involving planning matters in Torbay. http://news.bbc.co.uk/vote2001/hi/english/newsid_1361000/1361759.stm

Tory Party Councillor (Winnersh/Berkshire), David Ball - Convicted of illegal trading involving computer chips and pirated computer games, and contempt of court in 2004. Fined £2000. http://www.standardsboard.co.uk/Casesummaries/Casesummaries/W/WinnershParishCouncil/Name,3879,en.html

Tory Party Councillor (Lothian/Scotland), Iain Catto - Convicted of theft and jailed for 27 months in 2006, after ripping off a disabled man to the tune of £70,000, after he had befriended Catto (a solicitor) and trusted him to handle his finances. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/5381248.stm

Tory Councillor (Bradley Stoke/Bristol), David Hart - Convicted on 2 counts of theft in 2007 after forging a fellow councillors signiture to steal almost £9,000 of taxpayers money from the council while he was chairman of the Finance Committee on Bradley Stoke Town Councils . Given 180 hours community service and ordered to pay back some of the stolen money. Hart also had a previous conviction for forgery from 1998, which apparently did not deter local Tories from appointing him to such an important position of trust.

Tory Party Councillor (Crowland, Lincolnshire), Jim Speechley – Convicted and jailed for 18 months for financial corruption in 2004. Incredibly, he is allowed to continue serving as a councillor from his prison cell, while being let out to attend the occasional Council meeting wearing an electronic tag. This, with the full blessing of the `Party of Law and Order` Conservatives! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2751923.stm

LEADING Ipswich councillor Stephen Barker is to appear in court next month to answer charges relating to the execution of a will. Barker, 58, of The Green, Ashbocking was summonsed to appear at South East Suffolk Magistrates' Court on January 31.

He has been charged with perverting the course of justice in relation to the execution of a will. He appeared before south east Suffolk magistrates on February 15 and the case was sent to Ipswich Crown Court.

He is due to appear in the crown court for a plea and case management hearing on April 27. Barker was leader of the Conservative group on the borough council for four years between 2000 and 2004 when it was in opposition.
http://www.eveningstar.co.uk/content/eveningstar/news/story.aspx?brand=ESTOnline20

A Tory councillor who was disqualified from driving because of a drink-driving conviction is to return to court next week to face a charge that he flouted the ban. Chellaston councillor Ron Liversedge has confirmed that he now intends to quit as a member of Derby City Council.

He was given a £500 fine and a 20-month driving ban last February after a police breath test found him to be twice the legal limit. He was told that his ban would be reduced to 15 months if he successfully completed a drink-drivers' rehabilitation course.

On that occasion, the former pub landlord was stopped while driving his Renault Laguna in Fellowlands Way, Chellaston. It is understood that police arrested him on Saturday. He has been charged with driving while disqualified.
http://www.thisisderbyshire.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=131596&command=displayContent&sourceNode=124371&contentPK=16695158&folderPk=55129&pNodeId=124522

The Mayor of Harpenden has been charged with misconduct in a public office. John Chambers (Conservative)of Ridgewood Drive, Harpenden, Herts, was charged after an incident in November last year.

Mr Chambers, 67, who was first elected as a town councillor in 1999, will appear before Central Hertfordshire Magistrates Court on 9 February.

The married father-of-two served in the fire and ambulance services and has been presented with the Queen's Award for Long Service and Good Conduct.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/beds/bucks/herts/6299525.stm

OTHER:

Tory Party Councillor (Buckinghamshire), Andrew Huxley – Sacked from his position on the councils transport advisory group and his position as the Tories main transport spokesman in 2004, after being convicted for drink driving twice in the same year. http://www.ealingtimes.co.uk/display.var.553448.0.0.php

Tory Party Councillor (Dean/Scotland), Tom Ponton (who later defected to the Lib-Dems) – Convicted in 2003 for selling alcohol to children. http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2005/05/13/tom-ponton-under-fire/

Tory Party Minister (RAF) and former MP (Berwick-upon-Teed), Lord Lambton – Resigned in disgrace in 1973 after being convicted and fined on drugs offences. The Tory Lord had been photographed in bed, smoking cannabis with two prostitutes. A few days later, Earl Jellicoe, who was the Lord Privy Seal and Tory Leader in the House of Lords, also resigned after admitting to using prostitutes. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3360629.stm

Tory Party Councillor (Benfleet/Essex), Bill Sharp – Arrested and charged with harassment in 2005. Sharp is alleged to have harassed Tory General election candidate, Dr Bob Spink over a period of time. http://www.standardsboard.co.uk/Casesummaries/Casesummaries/C/CastlePointBoroughCouncil/Name,5541,en.html

Tory Party Councillor (Bradford/Yorkshire), Inkhab Alam – Convicted and jailed for 28 months in 2006 for the hit-and-run killing of 20-year old Christopher Benson, who was mown down at 70mph (in a 40mph zone) just a few yards away from his grandparent’s home. Witnesses described how Councillor Alam pulled up after the collision, went back to the scene, and then drove away, leaving young Christopher to die in the street. Alam then burnt the car out in another part of Bradford and reported it stolen to try to save his worthless neck. The ridiculously light sentence resulted from prosecutors insulting Christopher’s memory by refusing Judge James Stewart’s request to upgrade the `careless driving` charge to one of causing death by dangerous driving (which carries a sentence of up to 14 years). A decision the Judge branded as “nonsensical”. Judge Stewart went on: “This case is a matter of amazement. It justifies a charge of death by dangerous driving. A young mans life was snuffed out and prosecutors charge the defendant with driving without care? The victims family will want to know why, as I do.” http://www.morleytoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=378&ArticleID=1421988

Tory Party MP (Canterbury/Kent), Julian Brazier – Appointed as the Conservative Party’s transport spokesman by Michael Howard in 2005, despite the fact that he is a convicted killer driver! Brazier received a suspended jail sentence in 2001 after ploughing into and killing motorcyclist, Carlo Civitelli while on holiday in Italy. Brazier was driving on the wrong side of the road. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Brazier

Tory Party Councillor (Durrington/West Sussex), David Goodyear – Convicted of conspiracy to supply cocaine in 1994, and jailed for 2 and-a-half years http://archive.theargus.co.uk/2001/5/25/177589.html

Tory Party Councillor (Horley/Surry), David Harris – Convicted of drink driving for the second time in 2005.

Tory Party MP (Tatton/Cheshire), and Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne – Appeared in `The News of the World` photographed with his arms draped around a prostitute, Natalie Rowe (AKA `Mistress Pain`) sitting at a table laden with (according to Ms Rowe), lines of cocaine and paper to facilitate the snorting of it. Osborne was also campaign manager to his close friend, Tory golden boy David Cameron during the 2005 Conservative leadership contest. Cameron famously refuses to reveal whether or not he has ever taken any Class A drugs. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=365547&in_page_id=1770

A Chorley councillor and his girlfriend are to stand trial early next year over charges in connection with an alleged racist incident at an airport taxi rank.

Councillor Shaun Smith, 37, who represents Wheelton and Withnell ward, has been charged with a racially aggravated public order offence and common assault following a late night incident at Manchester Airport in June. His girlfriend, Amanda Jane Ahlgreen, 39, of Trigg Lane, Heapey, Chorley, has also been charged with a racially aggravated public order offence.

The pair were committed to Minshell Street Crown Court, Manchester, on January 25, when they appeared at Trafford Magistrates Court on Friday. Smith, of Briers Brow, Wheelton, was elected for the Conservative party to Chorley Borough Council in 2004.
http://www.thisislancashire.co.uk/news/headlines/display.var.1071091.0.race_charge_couple_trial_date.php