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Labour calls for Council action over disgraced rival

The Cheshire Chronicle reports on the eye-wateringly embarrassing and criminal antics of a former Conservative councillor on the City Council. The Deputy Labour group leader Bob Rudd has made an official complaint about Cllr Max Drury, alleging the former Tory has brought the office of councillor into disrepute, after Mr Drury was fined £350, told to pay costs of £600, ordered to pay a £15 victim surcharge, and made subject to a two-year restraining order after being found guilty of harassing his former business partner.

On being arrested for breaching a harassment order, Cllr Drury, said: “You are wrong, the chief constable will hear about this and you have done a wrongful arrest.”

And during the subsequent police interview, he said: “I’m a councillor not a yobbo. I’m not going to intimidate myself.”

The newspaper also reports that the court heard that on one occasion Cllr Drury, who has since resigned from the Conservative Party, turned up at the victim’s house and threatened: “My brothers from Wrexham are going to come down and kill you.” Read the full article.

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