Labour councillor cautioned following gay insult
by Rachel Charman
Pinks News UK
The deputy leader of Barking and Dagenham council has been cautioned by police after using homophobic language.
Senior Labour councillor Liam Smith is said to have said to a political rival's mother 'shut up you f***ing fat dyke' and 'go back to the farmyard', reports the Evening Standard.
Mr. Smith was cautioned by police after the matter was investigated as a hate crime.
He was ordered write a letter of apology to Mrs. Connelly.
Mrs. Connelly, however, told 24News.com that this apology was 'not worth the paper it's written on'.
'If he wanted to apologise he would have apologised the following day.
'This was only because the police said if he didn't sign the caution he would go to court.'
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As a side note, a commenter stated "Had senior Labour councillor Liam Smith said to a political rival's mother 'shut up you f***ing fat nigger' and 'go back to where you came from'he'd have faced a hell of a lot more than a simple caution. At the very least he's have been expelled from the party. Yet another example of double standards…"
Pinks News UK
The deputy leader of Barking and Dagenham council has been cautioned by police after using homophobic language.
Senior Labour councillor Liam Smith is said to have said to a political rival's mother 'shut up you f***ing fat dyke' and 'go back to the farmyard', reports the Evening Standard.
Mr. Smith was cautioned by police after the matter was investigated as a hate crime.
He was ordered write a letter of apology to Mrs. Connelly.
Mrs. Connelly, however, told 24News.com that this apology was 'not worth the paper it's written on'.
'If he wanted to apologise he would have apologised the following day.
'This was only because the police said if he didn't sign the caution he would go to court.'
full article
As a side note, a commenter stated "Had senior Labour councillor Liam Smith said to a political rival's mother 'shut up you f***ing fat nigger' and 'go back to where you came from'he'd have faced a hell of a lot more than a simple caution. At the very least he's have been expelled from the party. Yet another example of double standards…"
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