Rothpol’s thanks go to our intrepid spotter for this story from the Mail. Despite being the front page lead in this weeks Advertiser, nothing yet up online, pity!
Former councillor beat elderly neighbour, 80, with his crutch as he lay on the ground in row over wheelie bins and grass cutting
- Barry Ross, 66, attacked Malcolm Daniel, 80, in Ravenfield, South Yorkshire
- Had he been younger, Ross would have received a jail term, the judge said
- Ross was handed a four month curfew and a restraining order
- Mr Daniel’s daughter said he was not ‘the same person since the attack’
By Alex Ward
PUBLISHED: 10:02, 1 March 2013 | UPDATED: 10:55, 1 March 2013
A former councillor has been spared jail after beating his 80-year-old neighbour with a crutch in a row over cleaning wheelie bins and cutting grass.
Barry Ross, 66, was instead given a curfew after hitting Malcolm Daniel three times as he lay on the ground after falling over during the attack.
Elderly neighbours in Ravenfield, Rotherham, have started a petition to order the eviction of Ross because they see him as a nuisance and say they are afraid of him. Read on……..
Rotherham Politics 
For Wwhich party did he stand?
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Originally Liberals I believe. This prize idiot, then formed his own party, Lilburne Democrats! Comes in handy, I suppose, if everyone disagrees with him.
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Liberal Democrat originally.
Don’t know what all this is about, tho’:
http://www.lgcplus.com/lgc-news/rotherham-mbc-councillor-leak-case-dropped/1393596.article
Then he set up the “John Lilburne Democratic Party.” It hasn’t atracted a lot of support so far:
Click to access soa_25-05-11_13-56-35.pdf
The real John Lilburne was someone I have a lot of time for, and he had little in common with this person.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lilburne
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Also on front page of Advertiser. What an embarassment and further disgrace for Rotherham. Where will it end ? !
Ross lives in Ravenfield but neither report states where and when he was a councillor. Anyone know ?
As some of the comments state there are people older than him in prison , so why is he not ?
Couldn’t be anything to do with his ex-councillor status could it ?
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80 year old victim. Ffs that is tough! I think a criminal act leads to eviction ASAP in social housing if there is a will to do it.
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Is it worth paying £12 a month to subscribe to this local government rag just to read the rest of the “leak” story ?
“if there is a will to do it” , Graham ? What do you mean ?
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It says:
ROTHERHAM MBC COUNCILLOR LEAK CASE DROPPED
14 January, 2000
A Rotherham MBC councillor charged with leaking council documents and making allegations about South Yorkshire Poli…
A Rotherham MBC councillor charged with leaking council documents and making allegations about South Yorkshire Police has had his case dropped, reports the Yorkshire Post (p7).
Liberal Democrat Barry Ross only discovered the case had been dropped by the Crown Prosecution Service when he turned up at court for the hearing.
Mr Ross had been charged with offences relating to the harassment of a licensing police officer and leaking confidential information, an offence under the Local Government Act (1974). He is now considering making a claim for wrongful arrest.
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If at first you don’t succeed ask Google to show you its cached copy, by adding “cache:” to your search term, as in:
cache:http\\www.lgcplus.com/lgc-news/rotherham-mbc-councillor-leak-case-dropped/1393596.article
The Yorkshire Post seems to know the young gentleman quite well:
http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/around-yorkshire/local-stories/injunction-threat-over-by-election-1-2416138
http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/around-yorkshire/local-stories/toilet-jibe-councillor-sacked-over-poor-attendance-record-1-2415925
http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/around-yorkshire/local-stories/sacked-councillor-vows-to-fight-back-in-court-1-2419225
This report includes:
“Mr Ross has never been far from the centre of controversy. He was originally elected in May 1998 as a Liberal Democrat but sacked amid claims that he had called a colleague a liar. He then formed the John Lilburne Democratic Party. Lilburne was imprisoned by Oliver Cromwell for his constitutional beliefs.
Earlier this year there was another row. He claimed that as leader of an “alternative” political party he should be referred to as The Right Honourable. The Mayor, Coun Reg Littleboy, wrote refusing to do so and Mr Ross wrote back saying he had used his letter to “cleanse his rectum”.
During his career he has been accused of harassing a police officer and leaking confidential information relating to taxi drivers’ convictions. All charges were dropped.”
I bet they were!
final 2 paras of :
http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/around-yorkshire/local-stories/councillor-who-tried-to-punch-meeting-protester-will-not-face-disciplinary-action-1-2428419
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THis report states; Last week the council was at the centre of further controversy after it emerged the Labour candidate selected to stand for this by-election was a convicted criminal. What about “Asbo” Akhtar and his criminal conviction “s!”
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128 Votes for Lilburne Dem Party, Rotherham East in May 2011
(the documents regardig this on RMBC website are “no longer available”
http://www.andrewteale.me.uk/leap/results/2011/50/
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“(the documents regardig this on RMBC website are “no longer available”
Really?
You can download them from:
http://www.rotherham.gov.uk/downloads/file/7990/2011_rotherham_borough_council_election-declaration_of_results
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What a vile excuse of a human being! If someone is found guilty of a criminal act, they should be jailed, irrespective of age.
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Omar,
You know as well as I do that not all criminal offences justify a prison sentence, tho’ I kinda think this one did – as a short sharp shock.
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Of course, it was a generalisation but meant in this context.
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Think he was a councillor for Brinsworth. The man’s deluded, he insisted he should be addressed as a ” Honourable member” when in the council chamber. He also was trying to dig up something on the late Councillor Aubrey Senior which never came to anything
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Interesting !
Whilst many people end up deluded, not all of them began that way!
Councillor Aubrey Senior was Chair of the Licencing Board for many years. Its responsibilities include “Hackney Carriage and Private Hire” ; and during those years LibDem Councillor Ross seems to have got involved in a legal squabble, as, according to the Yorkshire Post:
“During his career he has been accused of harassing a police officer and leaking confidential information relating to taxi drivers’ convictions. All charges were dropped.”
I wasn’t even in UK when all this was happening, but maybe someone who was around at the time may know what that was all about? It does appear to have some contemporary relevance.
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Rothpol understands that “leaking confidential information relating to taxi drivers’ convictions. All charges were dropped.” Refers to the single public service, rendered by this odious man, was his attempted exposure of the scandal that allowed those convicted of serious crimes to nevertheless, obtain a Taxi permit in Rotherham!
As to whether this has any contemporary relevance? Who knows!
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Many antisocial tenants are never removed because he council or HA will not.
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Thanks rr – think I was having a blonde moment !
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Happens to all of us 🙂
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Wondering if I should ask for my last comment to be removed – don’t want to be accused of being ‘colourist’ ! 🙂
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