Peter Chegwyn banned from being a councillor
Controversial Gosport politician Peter Chegwyn has been banned from being a councillor for two years.
The Lib Dem group leader was ruled to have breached the councillors' code of conduct after he voted to block a motion relating to his Stokes Bay Festival last year.
The Adjudication Panel for England today reached its verdict at a tribunal held at Holiday Inn, Titchfield, and disqualified him from public service for two years.
This means there will have to be by-elections for his borough council seat of Leesland and Hampshire County Council seat of Hardway.
Cllr Chegwyn, who has been a councillor for 26 years, said: 'I will now have a holiday, frankly Gosport is a very spiteful council and in some ways I'm very well out of it.
'My conscience is clear. But the Conservatives have been determined to get rid of me for years.'
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