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Deposed Tower Hamlets mayor Lutfur Rahman was found guilty of several charges of corruption and election-rigging yesterday less than a year after winning a second term.
The directly elected mayor’s landslide victory in May 2014 was contested by four residents, including local council candidate Andy Erlam.
They accused Mr Rahman of election fraud, corruption, tampering with ballot papers, making false statements about the opposition and exercising undue influence on voters.
YVETTE WILLIAMS and JOE DELANEY dissect the institutional dawdling that rubbed salt into the Grenfell open wounds prolonging the agony of survivors
Once again Tower Hamlets is being targeted by anti-Islam campaigners, this time a revamped and radicalised version of Ukip — the far-right event is now banned by the police, but we’ll be assembling this Saturday to make sure they stay away, says JAYDEE SEAFORTH
Former judge ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the details and controversy of Lucy Letby’s trial and appeal in the context of famous historical wrongful convictions that prove both the justice system and legal activists make errors