Showing posts with label Rutland Councillor Richard Alderman resigns after Theresa May Facebook threats. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rutland Councillor Richard Alderman resigns after Theresa May Facebook threats. Show all posts

Saturday, February 23, 2019

Rutland Councillor Richard Alderman resigns after Theresa May Facebook threats

Rutland Councillor Richard Alderman resigns after Theresa May Facebook threats






















Richard Alderman was given a community order and curfew in October 2018 after admitting sending menacing or grossly offensive messages.

Richard Alderman called for the Prime Minister to be hanged in six Facebook posts between April and July 2018.

A court in Birmingham heard the independent councillor, of Lonsdale Way, Oakham, accused Mrs May of treason and had also posted grossly offensive messages about MPs Diane Abbott and Anna Soubry.

The six-month curfew effectively barred Alderman from going to meetings and, as the council declined to give him a dispensation, meant he would breach attendance rules.

https://www.rutland.gov.uk/my-council/council-news/councillor-richard-alderman-resigns/