Police accused of 'trampling' over democracy after detectives 'put pressure on a local Tory party to...

A police force was last night accused of 'trampling' over democracy after detectives allegedly put pressure on a local Tory party to unseat a colleague wrongly accused of a hate crime.

But the MoS can now reveal that days before Mr Stevens was arrested, a Northamptonshire Police detective phoned Jonathan Ekins, a former local Tory mayor for Wellingborough, and allegedly told him Mr Stevens should be 'removed' as a councillor because of his views. Andrea Williams, of the Christian Legal Centre, who is representing Mr Stevens, said: 'What happened undermined and trampled on our law, democracy and freedoms on every level'

This, she said, was a breach of his bail conditions and she warned him officers would arrest Mr Stevens 'on the spot' if he turned up at another meeting attended by the Labour councillor. Mr Stevens, a property developer, was arrested last August and quizzed about tweets from his account, which had 76 followers. One involved a video showing how police had treated Christian preacher Oluwole Ilesanmi in Southgate, North London, in 2019

Read More Police snatch Bible from hands of elderly Christian preacher before they handcuff and arrest him for breaching the peace after claim he was being racist One involved a video showing how police had treated Christian preacher Oluwole Ilesanmi in Southgate, North London, in 2019.

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