Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Councillors suspended after claims
Two married Conservative councillors have been suspended amid allegations they have been hosting group sex sessions at their Wolverhampton home.
To their neighbours, David and Carol Bourne are pillars of the community. Both represent Wednesfield North and have been heralded as leading lights in the campaign to triumph in the next general election.
Their future is uncertain after being suspended, amid allegations they have been inviting people to their Merry Hill home to take part in sex acts.
Reports have claimed that the pair have been charging people up to £150 to take part in lewd activities behind the curtains of their immaculate end-of-terrace house in Telford Gardens.
The couple are alleged to have advertised their “services” in an adult magazine using the same contact number as their political websites.
One shocked neighbour, who did not want to be named, said the Bournes appeared to be a respectable couple.
He said: “We can’t believe it. We always thought they had a lot of visitors but we just assumed they were friends.”
Last year David, a governor at St Bartholomew’s Primary in Penn, was unveiled as one of a trio of councillors picked by the Tories to head up their Black Country campaign team.
The 66-year-old – first elected in 2003 – is one of the authority’s senior councillors, as cabinet member for children and young people and a member of the standards committee.
Carol, aged 49, was elected last year as commentators hailed the David Cameron-effect for the party winning extra seats in the city.
Councillor Peter Bilson, deputy leader of Wolverhampton City Council until Labour was ousted in the May elections, said: “If this is fact they would lead to resignations. This is not good for the council.”
Leader of the Tory-Lib-Dem alliance at Wolverhampton City Council Neville Patten declined to comment, saying only: “They are suspended pending an investigation.”
The couple were today unavailable for comment.
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If this is found to be true, it will be a shameful day for Wolverhampton politics. I hope there is a full and thorough investigation. Its little wonder the electorate have such low confidence in politicians with claims like these!
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You couldn’t write this sort of comedy! – brilliant.
Best quote ‘One shocked neighbour, who did not want to be named, said the Bournes appeared to be a respectable couple.
He said: “We can’t believe it. We always thought they had a lot of visitors but we just assumed they were friends.”
Could this perhaps trigger a return to a labour led council?
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Shameful.Absolutely shameful.What’s the number again?
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So they are alleged to have been having consensual sex in their own home? What exactly could they be done for?
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Who really cares? Aren’t people allowed to have sex in their own homes?
Suspended for what crime? Is this really a big deal?
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Comment 4. Er, sexual acts for money? I believe that’s called running a brothel and is considered to be illegal even between consenting adults. We awit the outcome of investigation…
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Just like the rest of us, these eople are entitled to a private life and how they choose to spend their leisure time is surely for them to decide.
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re – comments number 4 & 7.
What absolute rubbish, if you go about moralising about the importance of ‘traditional family values’ (which both councillors have been doing) whilst practising the complete opposite behind their middle class net curtains then they fully deserve to be exposed for the two faced hypocrites they really are.
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perhaps they are claiming expenses for their home
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I live round the corner from these people! I will never be able to look at these people with a straight face again!!!!
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Thet should resign immediatley. The Sunday Mirror go into all the details. They caught them allegedly asking the reporter for money so that they could have sex!
Now that might not matter for everyone, but they did not tell the people of Wednesfield that they had this sideline and little business on the go! No they masqueraded as fine upstanding members of the community! Resign today!
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ewwwww……theyre old….
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their constituents should queue up outside their door and ask how much a session costs
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so this is how they get votes then
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Kinky …
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Oh my goodness sneaky eavesdropper 49 years old and still having sex who would of thought it!!
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no sympathy
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-150 pounds with the exchange rate thats $300 usd
best come over here and get a bang for your buck -
-What’s an “end of terrace house” mean anyway ?
- Suspended ? I bet he is – well suspended for 150 pounds.
- Wake up Dudley
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I do hope this income was declared to the Inland Revenue!
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is it such a supprise this is the british goverment were talking about weather locl or national they all want you to do what they want you to do and do what they want to do its all about them thats what sets them aside from everone else
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a bi-sexual prepared to sell his body and his wife in charge of kids? i would not be comfertable with that. i also trust that tax returns are available for this venture?
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Typical Tory Tardiness! (Hows that for alliteration!)
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He promised people a ‘leg up’ on the council!
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Where’s Peter Snow and his “Swing-o-meter” when you need them?
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So because they are involved with politics, they aren’t allowed to do things in their own home?
Even charging – something which isn’t illegal, many people charge for their time. What they then do as consenting adults is no-one else’s business.
Maybe they are hypocrites. So what? Does it make them any less able to do the job they are supposed to do?
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i may be wrong here could this not be classed as a brothel
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RE:Mary
Hes 66.
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26, no. Can be classed as providing companionship for money at best. Something that isn’t illegal.
Now if he was running a stable of girls (or guys) out of the property for sex, that would be a brothel.
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looking at the lady they would have to pay me £150 or put a bag over her head for thirty bob
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oh my goodness 66 and still having sex now theres a thing!
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Why would someone who’s 66 still want to have sex?
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