Watford update: Ian Oakley charged by the police

Ian Oakley, the Conservative Watford candidate who was arrested by the police last week (and subsequently resigned as the Conservative candidate), has now been charged:

TORY hopeful Ian Oakley has been charged by police for his alleged involvement in a three-year hate vendetta.

The 31-year-old former Conservative parliamentary candidate, who quit the party this week, was charged by police in relation to five counts of criminal damage and two counts of harassment.

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3 Comments

  • Dominic hannigan 25th Jul '08 - 12:16pm

    Without wanting to prejudge any trial – I will look forward to said trial immensely!

  • ‘Look Forward’

    I just find such behaviour impacts on all political parties. I find it all rather sad and any gloating by any political party in misguided as we all have such individuals within our respective parties.

  • Richard Church 27th Jul '08 - 9:33pm

    Get real. Just imagine how both Tories and Labour would have used this against the Lib Dems if a Lib Dem PPC in a target parliamentary seat was found guilty of similar behaviour.

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