#misconduct-in-public-office

#misconduct-in-public-office

Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle tipped off the Metropolitan Police about Lord Peter Mandelson allegedly planning to flee Britain for the British Virgin Islands, prompting his arrest. The former ambassador to Washington was arrested on Monday on suspicion of misconduct in public office and later released on bail after officers were warned he could leave the UK.

Activists have hung a photo in the Louvre museum in Paris of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor being driven from a police station after his arrest. The British political campaign group Everyone Hates Elon fixed the photo, which shows the former prince slouched in the backseat of a Range Rover, on a wall of the Paris gallery on Sunday. The photo was taken by the Reuters photographer Phil Noble after Mountbatten-Windsor's arrest on Thursday at the Sandringham estate on suspicion of misconduct in public office.

The former mayor of Liverpool Joe Anderson has denied charges of bribery and misconduct - including allegations that he sent himself "threatening letters". The 67-year-old appeared at Manchester Crown Court on Friday where he entered not guilty pleas to bribery, misconduct in a public office and conspiracy to commit misconduct in a public office. Anderson, who was the city's elected mayor from 2012 to 2021, is alleged to have sent or arranged to have sent the letters to himself, the court heard.