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Fit to lead Part 2
used the word “Paddy” offensively and was for two years and will attend a sex offenderʼs
being “racist with intent”. treatment programme and be put on the sex
Judging by the response to last monthʼs article,
offender register.
with a good number of you telling us how
He lodged an official complaint and took the
much you enjoyed those councillors, elected to
matter to an employment tribunal, which referred In December 08 a leading councillor and former
represent us but serving themselves, I decided
the case to the conciliation service ACAS. Mr deputy mayor of Harrogate who sickeningly tried
to give a few more an outing on our wall of
Kelly is believed to have been awarded several to groom a 13-year-old for sex in an internet
shame.......(weʼre gonna need a bigger wall....Ed)
thousand pounds compensation, some from the chatroom was jailed for eight months. Shamed
council and some from Cllr Bamber. Morris Lightfoot, 56, a married dad-of-two,
Hic....see you...youʼre my bestest mate you
made vile suggestions to the girl named ʻTina,ʼ
is....hic
I suppose Mr Kelly got the wrong end of the pestered her to visit him so he could “abuse”
stick, or maybe it was a shit joke.....talking of her and sent her naked pictures of himself as he
We all make mistakes donʼt we? Like forgetting to
getting the wrong end of the stick, a similar begged to take her virginity.
slow down going into 30 mph zone, like forgetting
thing apparently happened in North Tyneside
to advise a council about a traffic offence or
in 2008 when a Tory councillor came up A Conservative councillor from the West
even forgetting where a speed camera is. with a rather “over enthusiastic” suggestion Midlands who kissed a 16-year-old girl on the
Sometimes the human mind just isnʼt with it. “To for saving money on the cost of caring for cheek and neck as they danced alone after
err is human” ......Robbie Burns said that and he children. Euthanasia! Although Councillor Hugh a party has been ordered to register as a sex
should know – heʼs Scottish (right GB?). Jackson of Monkseaton North stated it was offender. Ian Hillas, who represents the Castle
misplaced humour, this didnʼt wash and he was Bromwich ward on Solihull Council, was also
Well, some councillors are mere mortal too, one subsequently forced to resign. ordered to pay £2,151 costs after admitting
made the mistake of confusing ʻnon-alcoholicʼ sexual assault at Wolverhampton Crown Court
wine with ʻalcoholicʼ wine and this mistake cost Pendle Borough councillor Smith Benson canʼt during January 2010. The 43-year-old was
Bury Councillor Denise Bigg when she was be the sharpest knife in the cutlery set; heʼs sentenced to a conditional discharge after
convicted of being nearly 3 times over the drink been partially suspended and told to issue a changing his plea to guilty shortly before he was
driving limit during January. Witnesses told formal apology after he made racist comments due to face a jury trial.
police they saw her driving her Honda Jazz at a public meeting in Lancashire. Apparently,
ʻerraticallyʼ along Bury New Road in Whitefield, at a meeting of the Colne town centre The former deputy leader of Solihull Council
near Bury, on November 12. At one point the regeneration forum last September, Mr Benson, remained impassive in the dock as his barrister,
car almost hit a central reservation near Hilton a Conservative councillor, said: “The problem Sarah Buckingham, said his life had been
Lane. The witness told police the car was with Colne is that there are too many takeaways destroyed by a moment of “utter madness”.
travelling at 10mph and ʻswerving from side to run by ethnic minorities, thatʼs why people donʼt
sideʼ. A second witness then saw the car veer come to Colne.” Apparently the councillor failed
“I am not a crook!”
ʻwildlyʼ to the right then left before mounting a to treat people with respect.
pavement and driving along it for 10 car lengths.
Errm well the judge thought differently Jezz.....
Depraved! he jailed you! Jezz “I am not a crook” Baker was
It eventually stopped near Barnes Street and
convicted of one count of corruption under the
Councillor Bigg, who represents the Elton ward
Former Sandwell Councillor Alan Burkitt found Public Bodies Corruption Act 1889, and found not
on Bury Council, got out and was ʻstumblingʼ
himself a rather bizarre way of earning a few guilty of another at Winchester Crown Court in
as she walked in the direction of a McDonaldʼs
extra quid to help out with those household bills. September, following jury deliberation lasting just
restaurant, the court heard. She was fined
He put his girlfriend on the game. Burkitt, 48, over seven hours. Baker had accepted a £500
£180 with £85 costs and banned from driving
of West Bromwich, West Midlands, admitted bribe in return for ensuring a planning application
for 20 months......a pitiful amount really
four counts of causing prostitution between would go through. He was caught taking the
especially considering how much those pesky
November 2005 and February 2006. The money in January 2007 on a hidden camera.
ʻcherrypickersʼ are fined in Liverpool, guilty of
court heard more than 20 men paid £50 for her
driving a Honda Jazz would have sufficed!
services while Burkitt, an Independent member In June 2009 a parish councillor who had
for Sandwell Council, sat in the room next door. almost £500,000 go through his bank accounts
Muddled Medway was jailed for benefit fraud. Disabled Geoffrey
In August 2009 a disgraced former chairman Bratt, aged 65, failed to declare substantial
A couple of councillors seem to have made the of the Labour Partyʼs Calder Valley branch, assets, two properties or his wifeʼs income while
headlines in Medway in recent months, first of Mayor of Hebden Royd and councillor, Stewart receiving £5,971 in council tax exemptions.
all Cllr Nick Brice, 64, was thrown out of the Brown, walked free from court after admitting
Medway Conservative party after being caught downloading 1,000 child porn pictures. In January 2010 a councillor was handed a two
trying to pick up a prostitute in Rochester. year ban. The Adjudication Panel for England
Stewart Brown also distributed 10 of the sick announced that Anne Bishop, a former Isle of
Foot in mouth images. Some of the children were as young as Wight Council and then serving Shanklin town
four. Five of the pictures were rated level five – councillor, had breached the codes of conduct
Cllr Ken Bamber, who also sits on Medway the most serious. Brown, 60, of Nutclough, for both bodies. The panel found she used her
Council, was chatting with Brian Kelly, a Unison Hebden Bridge, was given a nine-month position to try to gain an advantage as the
rep, when he made an Irish joke. The joke suspended sentence. He said the shame council considered her planning application to
apparently upset Brian Kelly, who was born in of the case had pushed him to the brink of build flats at the Craven Court Hotel, Shanklin,
Ireland, indeed Mr Kelly said Cllr Barber had suicide. Brown had his sentence suspended which she owned.
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