A member of Isle of Anglesey County Council (“the Member”) referred himself to my office after commenting in a meeting “bod angen saethu pob Tory” (“that all Tories should be shot”).
Evidence of widespread media coverage; complaints to the Council; a complaint to a governing body of which the Member was a member and his own admission, were suggestive that a breach of the Code of Conduct may have occurred.
The Ombudsman found that the evidence suggested paragraphs 4(b) and 6(1)(a) of the Code may have been breached and referred her report to the Standards Committee of the Isle of Anglesey County Council.
The Standards Committee determined that the Member had failed to comply with paragraphs 4(b) and 6(1)(a) of the Code. It determined that a censure be imposed on the Member. It also made 2 recommendations in an effort to support its aim of maintaining public confidence.