(2012) Conservative Cllr. George Lord -JAILED FOR FOUR YEARS FOR SEXUAL ASSAULT

FORMER Worcestershire County Council leader George Lord has been jailed for four years for a series of sexual assaults.

The 79-year old was sentenced at Birmingham Crown Court this morning (Tuesday).

We reported last month how Lord had pleaded guilty to three charges of indecent assault on a girl in the 1970s when he was a lay minister of a church in Droitwich and performed a number of sexual acts on the teenager.

He had already been found guilty of sexually assaulting a 19-year-old in the council chamber at Worcestershire County Council in 2010.

Lord was told he will spend at least half of his four year sentence in jail.
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A disgraced ex-Tory council leader on Thursday admitted molesting a teenage girl more than 30 years ago and groping another junior member of staff in the town hall while he was in office.

Dr George Lord, 79, former head of Worcestershire County Council, assaulted the girl – aged either 14 or 15 – between 1977 and 1979 while he was a church preacher.

Lord, from Bromsgrove, Worcs., had already been convicted of sexually assaulting a 19-year-old girl in the council chamber while he was leader in 2010.

Reporting restrictions have only just been lifted to allow the media to report on the latest case.

A previous hearing was told Lord assaulted the girl by ”touching her bottom and vagina” without her consent.

Lord on Thursday pleaded guilty to three charges of indecent assault at Birmingham Crown Court.

Lord, wearing a dark shirt and grey tie, stared straight ahead during the 10-minute hearing.

He admitted indecently assaulting a 14 or 15-year-old girl between September 1977 and 1979.

Lord was remanded into custody for pre-sentence reports and was warned he faces a prison sentence.

Judge Nigel Godsmark QC told him: “You have pleaded guilty to three charges of indecent assault.

“I am adjourning this case so that a pre-sentence report may be compiled, not only to tell me about your previous standing but also to tell me if you present a risk to women.”

Speaking after the case, Detective Inspector Jon Wallis, of West Mercia Police, said: “While these two cases were separated by many years, in both George Lord has abused a position of authority.

“In the first case in the 1970s, he was a lay minister of a church who groomed a teenage girl for his own gratification.

“Then in 2010, in his capacity as Leader of Worcestershire County Council, he took advantage of a young woman in a junior position.

“The women he targeted, who have been left traumatised by their ordeal, have shown great fortitude to support a prosecution and achieve justice for themselves.

“We would like to reassure any other victims of similar offences that if they come forward, West Mercia Police will support them and pursue prosecutions wherever possible, regardless of when the offence took place.

“We encourage them to contact us and at the very least we can put them in touch with local support agencies.”

It was revealed in December 2010 that Dr Lord had been arrested over allegations of sexual offences after officers confirmed earlier in the year they were looking into a complaint made by a woman regarding an alleged historic sexual offence.

Lord was released on bail then pending further investigation.

Read on:  http://www.newstoday.co.uk/5470/2012/03/former-leader-of-worcestershire-county-council-charged-with-sexual-assault/

(2012) New Labour Cllr. Manish Sood -INDECENT ASSAULT/PESTERING SCHOOL GIRLS FOR SEX

A former Leicester city councillor who caused a political storm by describing Gordon Brown as “the worst Prime Minister in history”, pestered two schoolgirls for sex and indecently assaulted a young woman.

Manish Sood kissed a 22-year-old on her bottom in the guise of “therapy” and offered to pay two girls, aged 14 and 15, to visit his home for “massages”.

Divorced Sood (40), of Roundhill Road, Leicester, appeared at the city’s Crown Court to be sentenced for the offences, which he admitted.

Sood was Labour councillor for Leicester’s Fosse Ward and Parliamentary candidate for Norfolk North West when he criticised Gordon Brown two years ago, making national headlines and damaging Labour’s 2010 election campaign.

He was suspended from the party but readmitted in January last year. He remained Fosse councillor until the local elections last May, when he did not seek re-election.

The Crown Court hearing was told that on February 6 last year that Sood phoned one of the teenage victims after she posted an advert on the Gumtree website seeking a part-time job.

Prosecutor Sian Cutter said Sood offered to pay her £20 to lie down on a couch and have a massage, which she refused.

He continued to contact her, urging her to meet him at his home. Sood rang her 27 times and sent 15 texts.

The girl complained to a 15-year-old friend at school, who rang Sood and told him to leave her friend alone.

But Sood then directed his attention to the friend, asking if she was interested in “therapy”, and sending 26 texts and phoning 152 times in three days, suggesting she visit for “physical tantra”.

He told her to bring “toe rings and condoms”, the court heard.

Sood suggested picking her up from school, which worried her as she had not told him where it was.

In front of a teacher, she told Sood to stop bothering her on the phone, to which he replied: “Even for £200? Let me know if you change her mind.”

He was then reported to the police. When arrested, he accepted he had “sexual motives” towards the schoolgirls and claimed his medication made him “forgetful”.

Ms Cutter told the court that Sood had met the 22-year-old woman through Gumtree in January last year, and she went to his home genuinely believing he was a therapist.

Sood took her to his bedroom to demonstrate relief of “aroma and tantra”.

He massaged over her clothes, touching her inappropriately and kissing her stomach, causing her to freeze in fear.

Sood massaged her back, pulled down her leggings and underwear and kissed her bottom. She was too scared and uncomfortable to say anything and left, the court heard.

Sood admitted causing or inciting the two teenagers to engage in sexual activity, and to sexually assaulting the 22-year-old.

Judge Michael Pert QC said: “It’s conduct of a dirty old man, and you’re not even old.”

Read on:  http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/Teen-girls-pestered-sex-Leicester-politician/story-15410365-detail/story.html

(2012) New Labour Cllr. Peter Richards -PROTECTING CHILD ABUSERS?

Below is the second email sent to Councillor Richards by a long standing supporter of the Lewis family sent out of frustration.

He has deliberately refused to reply to the first email.
You can see Cllr Richards position within this discredited Council it has already been highlighted by our friend.
Councillor Richards is not a man to be trusted.  

At the last Council Election up until the close of voting he was a candidate for the Ratepayers of Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council.

As soon as the polls closed he betrayed the electorate of Baglan Ward as did his fellow Ratepayer Candidate Mrs Juliet Hopkins and defected to the Labour Party.

Read on for hard, irrefutable evidence: http://cllrkevinedwards.blogspot.com/2012/02/councillor-peter-richards-of-labour.html

(2012) Conservative Cllr. Bob Bate -CHARGED WITH CHILD AND ANIMAL PORNOGRAPHY OFFENCES

FORMER Wycombe District Councillor Bob Bate appeared before court this morning charged with child and animal pornography offences.

The 62-year-old of Moncrieffe Close, Dudley, appeared before Wycombe Magistrates charged with 17 counts of making indecent photos of children.

The former Hazlemere Parish Council chairman stands accused of four counts of distributing indecent images of children and one charge of possessing to show or distribute indecent photographs of children.

The ex-Conservative party whip is also charged with possessing extreme pornographic images with animals and to intentionally encourage the commission of an either way offence.

Bate spoke only to confirm his name and address, and did not indicate a plea.

He has been released on unconditional bail and is due to appear back before magistrates on April 3.

Read on: http://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/news/9516378.Ex_Cllr_appears_before_court_charged_with_child_and_animal_porn_offences/

(2012) Liberal Democrat Cllr. Denis Bennett -INDECENT ASSAULT

Denis Bennett, 50, a married father of two who had served on St Austell Town Council, was yesterday convicted of stood in the dock at Truro Crown Court yesterday (thursday) to hear the verdict. The jury took an hour and fifteen minutes to find the supermarket worker guilty of one count of indecently assaulting the 18-year-old man.

Bennett had denied the allegation at Truro Crown Court, insisting he had merely been fooling around with the teenager, admitting only that he might have gone “over the top a bit”.

Judge Christopher Elwen adjourned the case for pre-sentence reports and released Bennett on bail to reappear in four weeks’ time for sentence.

During the one-day trial the court heard the victim had been visiting Bennett’s family home on Market Hill, St Austell, when the attack took place. The defendant has since moved out of the house.

 

Read on: http://www.thisiscornwall.co.uk/Married-Cornwall-ex-councillor-guilty-sex-attack/story-13033548-detail/story.html

 

(2011) New Labour Cllr. John Friary -ARRESTED ON SUSPICION OF GROOMING UNDERAGE GIRL

A Labour councillor with close links to Harriet Harman and Tessa Jowell has been arrested on suspicion of grooming an underage girl for sex.

John Friary, 51, was questioned by Scotland Yard’s paedophile unit and has been sacked from his position on a council.

He has frequently canvassed at elections with Ms Harman and Ms Jowell who are both members of Ed Miliband’s shadow cabinet.

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(2011) New labour Cllr. Mark Burton -CHARGED WITH TWO SEX OFFENCES; ONE AGAINST A CHILD.

 

A COUNCILLOR has been remanded in custody and suspended by his party after being charged with two sexual offences.

Mark Burton was arrested only days after this month’s council elections and was charged with two offences, one against a child.

Councillor Burton was re-elected to serve the Harrowgate Hill ward on Darlington Borough Council for a second four-year term on May 5.

The 42-year-old Labour councillor was arrested three days later and charged with an offence of sexual assault and a second for sexual touching of a child.

He later appeared in front of magistrates inNewton Aycliffe, where he was remanded in custody until his next hearing on June 15. No pleas have yet been entered.

He has been suspended by his party pending the outcome of the investigation.

New council leader Bill Dixon referred The Northern Echo to the party’s regional group yesterday.

A Labour North spokesman said: “Coun Mark Burton has been placed on an administrative suspension from the Labour Party and Darlington Labour Group pending the outcome of police inquiries.

“He is unable to hold any position with, or represent, the Labour Party during his suspension.

“It would be inappropriate to comment further until police investigations are complete.”

A spokeswoman at Darlington Borough Council said: “Coun Mark Burton has been charged with two offences of a sexual nature.

“The case is still being investigated by the police and the usual child protection procedures are being followed.

“We understand that he is currently remanded in custody.

“The councillor has been suspended from the Labour group and has therefore not been put forward for seats on any of the committees.

“At this stage, the council does not have powers to take any action to suspend him.”

She added that ward matters in Harrowgate Hill would be dealt with by the two other Labour councillors – John Vasey and Marjory Knowles.

(2010) New Labour Cllr. Gilbert Davidson -SEXUAL HARASSMENT

A MARRIED city councillor has been arrested over claims he acted inappropriately towards a female colleague.

Gilbert Davidson – who represents Glasgow’s North East ward – was charged by police after allegedly leaving a suggestive voicemail on former Lord Provost Liz Cameron’s mobile phone.

Glasgow’s North East ward – was charged by police after allegedly leaving a suggestive voicemail on former Lord Provost Liz Cameron’s mobile phone.

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(2010) Conservative Cllr. Barry Phelps -RESIGNS OVER SEXUAL EMAILS

Hat-tip: iamdisgustedatrbkc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5B4W1BO2jAc http://barryphelps.posterous.com/

Two Tory councillors have resigned after it emerged inappropriate emails had been sent using the council’s email system.

Former Kensington and Chelsea mayor Councillor Barry Phelps fired off a series of emails to Councillor Mark Daley, displaying black and white images of young boys with sexually suggestive captions added by Mr Phelps.

Both handed in their resignations on Monday.

The emails were reported to the council by Justin Downes, leader of the Residents First campaign group, who had been alerted by a concerned resident.

“These were innocent images and Councillor Phelps has created sexual overtones to them,” Mr Downes said.

“I think it’s absolutely right for them to go when the council proclaims itself as a council which is absolutely intolerant of child abuse.

“They are innuendo-laden and shocking.”

More information on Phelps: http://barryphelps.posterous.com/

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(2009) New Labour Cllr. Hassan Ahmed -ARRESTED ON SUSPICION OF SEXUAL ASSAULT

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A LEADING city councillor[Labour] has been arrested on suspicion of assault and sexual assault.

Coun Hassan Ahmed, 58, who is the council’s portfolio holder for employment and skills, is accused of assaulting a 47-year-old woman who was a teacher at a college in the Notts area.

The offence is alleged to have occurred late at night in July.

Coun Ahmed has denied the allegation.

A spokesman for Notts Police said: “Nottinghamshire Police arrested a 58-year-old man on suspicion of committing common assault and sexual assault on July 29.

“The man was released on bail pending further inquiries and the matter is still very much under investigation.”

Coun Ahmed took up his position as portfolio holder in May. He has been bailed to report to the police on November 19.

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(2009) Conservative Cllr. Ian Hillas -CHARGED WITH SEXUAL ASSAULT

A senior Solihull councillor will face trial on a charge of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl.

Coun Ian Hillas, 42, a former deputy leader of Solihull Borough Council, appeared at Warley Magistrates’ Court yesterday and was granted conditional bail. He was committed for trial at Wolverhampton Crown Court and will firstly face a plea and directions hearing on September 1.

Hillas, of Oakwood Croft, Solihull, who represents Castle Bromwich for the Conservatives on Solihull Council, has pleaded not guilty to one charge of a sexual assault in Cradley Heath.

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A senior Solihull councillor will face trial on a charge of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl.
Coun Ian Hillas, 42, a former deputy leader of Solihull Borough Council, appeared at Warley Magistrates’ Court yesterday and was granted conditional bail. He was committed for trial at Wolverhampton Crown Court and will firstly face a plea and directions hearing on September 1.
Hillas, of Oakwood Croft, Solihull, who represents Castle Bromwich for the Conservatives on Solihull Council, has pleaded not guilty to one charge of a sexual assault in Cradley Heath.

(2007) New Labour Former Mayor Lawrence Bailey

CRIME 1: A former leader of Swansea Council has been banned from becoming a councillor for two-and-a-half years after indecent images were found on his computers.
Lawrence Bailey, 52, was found to have breached codes of conduct by the Adjudication Panel for Wales.
It also found he had broken rules by writing to a local newspaper using false names.
At least 70,000 “graphic” images were found on one computer.


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CRIME 2: But the panel also found it contained 253 documents, mostly letters to the Swansea Evening Post.

“Although the police examination showed Mr Bailey as being the author, the documents purported to have originated from various residents of Swansea,” stated the report.

“In some cases the addresses did not exist or the postcodes did not match them, or the true residents had no knowledge of the letters.”
“Widespread practice”

In his own submission to the panel, Mr Bailey claimed that writing letters to the press under pseudonyms “was widespread practice in political life in Wales”.

(2009) Ex-UKIP Candidate Jason Philips -PAEDOPHILE

A FORMER Worcester UKIP candidate –- who has since converted to Islam – has been sentenced for possessing indecent photographs of children.
Jason Phillips, who stood in the city’s 2007 elections for the Arboretum ward, had previously admitted downloading two indecent images of a child.
Sallie Hewitt, prosecuting, said police were alerted to Phillips when he sent sexually offensive messages to friends of his new girlfriend’s ex-husband through the social networking site Facebook.
When questioned by police he told them he had sent the message to be as offensive as possible.
Police officers seized his computer and in December 2008 it was found to contain the images, which were deemed to be Level 2 photos – the most serious being Level 5.

(2008) Conservative Cllr. Robert Benson


A Conservative councillor in Harrow has appeared in court charged with engaging in sexual activity in a public lavatory. Robert Benson did not enter a plea at Harrow Magistrates’ Court last week. He has been suspended from the party but remains a councillor. Council leader David Ashton told the Harrow Observer: “Firstly, this is a matter for the courts. Secondly, as Conservative group leader, I have suspended Councillor Benson from the group. “If somebody is charged with a criminal offence, they are suspended as part of our standard procedure.” Mr Benson, 41, is accused of giving oral sex to another man in a public toilet in south Harrow on June 25th. He was arrested and bailed until July 8th, when he was charged. A 56-year-old from Essex man was issued with a caution. Mr Benson’s case will be heard on 30th July at Wimbledon Magistrates Court.

Conservative Cllr. Robert Richdale -PAEDOPHILE, THUG, THIEF, DRUGS…

Tory Party Councillor (Folkestone) Robert Richdale has a 41-year history of crime, involving 30 convictions and 5 prison sentences. Richdale’s 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://tinyurl.com/43u6g5

198. Stephen Milligan M.P.

Tory Party MP (Eastleigh) Stephen Milligan was found dead in his flat in February 1994. 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://tinyurl.com/29z9ev

197. Cllr. and Former Mayor Michael Morris

Tory Party Councillor and former Mayor (Wrexham, Wales) Michael Morris was 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 Conservatives were quite happy for him to continue as a councillor. http://tinyurl.com/5lqwpj

196. Ian Harvey M.P.

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://tinyurl.com/6cxuc4

Conservative Cllr. Alan Burkitt

Tory Party Councillor (Sandwell, West Midlands) Alan Burkitt was 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 Lib-Dem councillor in 1996 before defecting to the Tories 3 years later, was given a suspended 1-year jail sentence. http://tinyurl.com/54pd89

178. Cllr. Raymond Hutcheon

A prominent Scottish councillor has resigned after his home was searched and he was questioned in relation to a major murder investigation. Raymond Hutcheon, who at one time lived with a prostitute and was spoken to by police for kerb crawling, was a member of a Holyrood adult entertainment working group, as well as holding key posts on Aberdeen City Council. http://tinyurl.com/49zyoo

Liberal Democrat M.P. Mark Oaten – LIAISONS WITH RENT BOYS

Lib-Dem MP (Winchester, Hampshire) Mark Oaten resigned in disgrace from his front bench position as the party’s Home Affairs spokesman in 2006 after he was exposed as having paid rent boys for homosexual sex in threesomes. The scandal broke when one of the rent boys sold his story to the News of the World after recognising the Lib-Dem high-flyer on television during Oaten’s bid to become party leader. Married father of two Mr Oaten paid his male whores to subject him to “degradation and humiliation” involving acts considered “too disgusting” to describe in the News of the World.

New Labour Cllr. John Whiteman

Labour Councillor and Deputy Council Leader (Northumberland) John Whiteman, who was also a senior member of the local police authority, was convicted and fined in 2002 for soliciting a prostitute in the red light district of Middlesbrough. The court heard Whiteman 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://tinyurl.com/26xfz6

New Labour Party Activist Rab Knox -SEX ATTACKER

Prominent Edinburgh Labour Party activist and election candidate Rab Knox was 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 Labour’s “Mr Anti-sleaze” in Scottish political circles due to his unimpeachable integrity and general all-round saintliness. http://tinyurl.com/2xftyx

(2007) New Labour Cllr. Neil Redrup -GUILTY OF GROSS INDECENCY

A councillor admitted setting up a secret camera to film women using his bathroom, police said today. Neil Redrup, an independent member of Gosport Borough Council [Portsmouth], pleaded guilty at Southampton Crown Court yesterday to four charges of voyeurism. The 45-year-old also pleaded guilty to a charge of gross indecency relating to opening a pornographic email in front of a child. http://tinyurl.com/ytukla