Joe Anderson was arrested in December 2020 on suspicion to commit bribery and witness intimidation, as part of a wider corruption investigation.
Tory grandee Lord Heseltine has confronted the Government on the police treatment of the former mayor of Liverpool, Joe Anderson, who has been left in limbo after his arrest three years ago.
Mr Anderson has always denied wrongdoing and he is yet to be charged with any crime, but Merseyside Police say investigations are ongoing.Lord Heseltine, former deputy Prime Minister and key figure in Margaret Thatcher’s Cabinet, made a rare intervention in the House of Lords to raise the issue of the delay in Mr Anderson’s case and the “conduct of police” in their treatment of him.
“The police are rightly independent of government and decisions concerning investigations are operational ones for the respective police forces to make.” “I should also note that Mr Anderson has previously challenged the decision to arrest him by way of judicial review, including an appeal and was unsuccessful in the courts, and since then neither he nor anyone acting on his behalf has made a complaint to the police.
Labour peer and former Unite boss Lord Woodley praised Lord Heseltine as “one of the few Tories whose reputation is still strong in the city of Liverpool following his work after the Toxteth riots all those decades ago”.
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