Tower Hamlets council candidate accuses Tory councillor of being KKK Grand Wizard

A council candidate in Tower Hamlets has apologised for calling a Conservative councillor a Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard.

Tower Hamlets First candidate for St Katherine's & Wapping, Stuart Madwell, made the offensive (and libellous) comments on Facebook about Conservative councillor Peter Golds. The comments have been reported to the police and Cllr Golds is taking legal advice.

Tower Hamlets First is the party the Mayor of Tower Hamlets, Lutfur Rahman, represents. Rahman was recently investigated by the police over claims that he had illegally doubled funding for Bangladeshi groups in Tower Hamlets to buy support.