A photo on social media showed the mayor with an ex-councillor arrested for child abuse images.
Hackney mayor Philip Glanville attended a party with Tom Dewey despite knowing he had been arrestedHackney's mayor will temporarily step aside after a photo showed him at a social event with an ex-councillor arrested over child abuse images.
Statutory Deputy Mayor of Hackney Anntoinette Bramble will assume temporary leadership of the council.The council's interim chief executive Dawn Carter-McDonald told residents it was "business as usual". Mr Glanville was suspended from the Labour Party after a photo posted on social media showed him at a Eurovision party with former Hackney councillor Tom Dewey.
Dewey later admitted three counts of possessing indecent images of children. Five of the images were in the most serious category A, 41 in category B and 203 in category C.When he was suspended by the Labour Party last week, Mr Glanville said he had not known of the "full extent" of the allegations against Dewey.But he said being with Dewey at the event was "an error of judgement for which I wholeheartedly apologise".
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