Roger Bird cleared of wrongdoing over sexual harassment claims

UKIP General Secretary, Roger Bird, has been cleared of any wrongdoing over the vexatious sexual harassment claims made against him by former Labour activist, Natasha Bolter.

Serious doubts had already been cast on Bolter's claims by the release of a series of text messages she sent to Bird telling him she loved him and other romantic messages when Oxford university publicly announced that they could find no record of Bolter ever having attended as she claimed.

Despite being cleared of wrongdoing, Bird is leaving his post early by mutual consent because of the "unfortunate publicity" which is disappointing.

Oxford University says Natasha Bolter has never attended

Natasha Bolter, the former candidate who has made what appear to be false accusations of sexual harassment against UKIP general secretary Roger Bird, seems to have lied about attending Oxford University.

A spokesperson for Oxford University has confirmed that nobody by the name of Natasha Ahmed (the name she was using previously) with her date of birth attended Oxford University. It casts even more doubt on her credibility after Roger Bird released romantic text messages she sent him yesterday which show that the two were in a relationship rather than him sexually harassing her as she claimed.

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned

UKIP General Secretary, Roger Bird, has released some of the text messages he received from Natasha Bolter, the candidate who accused him of impropriety over the candidate selection process.

Natasha Bolter was a Labour Party member in Tower Hamlets until September when she defected to UKIP. In a speech to conference in September she praised UKIP's policies on the NHS and education whilst slating Labour for betraying its roots and tokenism with female candidates, describing the Labour Party as misogynistic. She has now resigned from UKIP, accusing Roger Bird of sexually harassing her and approving her for the Westminster candidate list because he fancied her and not because she passed the assessment. She's decided that UKIP is also misogynistic and apparently racist as well. In response, Roger has made public some of the text messages his "victim" sent him:

Nov 9, 17.26:
I am really missing u bird...

Nov 6, 19.05
I have sang you praises to Nigel for 12 minutes

Nov 6, 00.24:
U r not coming back and accordingly my life will go back to a meaningless void and it was chance that I met u. But I didn't invent u - u were real...

Nov 2, 23.45:
I love u bird and wish u let me look after u. Hope u feel better xx

Nov 1, 09.27:
But I love u and miss u and think u r sort of perfect...

Oct 30, 18.12:
I am really looking forward to c bird x

Oct 28, 19.20:
...it's so lovely to hear from u x

Oct 19, 21.09:
Anyway bird I always f--- up and u don't let me in! And let go and u can trust me x. Ps thanks u for 2 nd chance but will probably screw it up!

Oct 14, 09.31:
U r a really great mentor bird

Sep 27 09.48:
R u still cool with me leaving suitcase here and coming home with u? Xx

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.

Roger Bird suspended as UKIP General Secretary

UKIP general secretary, Roger Bird, has been suspended by the party over allegations of impropriety.

There are very few details whilst the investigation is taking place, only that it relates to allegations about candidate selection. No doubt more details will be released once the investigation has run its course.