Sir Keir Starmer pledged to help clean up British politics hours before campaigning in a by-election caused by the resignation of a Labour councillor convicted of housing fraud, it has emerged. The Labour leader visited the Polthorne estate in Plumstead with London mayor Sadiq Khan on Monday, pressing voters to endorse Labour in tomorrow’s Glyndon […]
Tonia Ashikodi news
News about former Greenwich councillor Tonia Ashikodi, who was given a suspended sentence for housing fraud in 2020.
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By-election to replace disgraced Greenwich councillor could cost £30,000
Up to £30,000 of taxpayers’ money will be spent on the by-election forced by this week’s resignation of disgraced Greenwich councillor Tonia Ashikodi. The council confirmed shortly after Ashikodi’s resignation on Wednesday that a by-election to fill the vacancy in Glyndon ward would be held on Thursday 9 April. It means the council will have […]
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Greenwich Labour councillor Tonia Ashikodi spared jail for housing fraud
5.45pm update: Greenwich Labour councillor Tonia Ashikodi was spared prison this morning after a judge gave her an 18-month sentence, suspended for two years, for housing fraud. Judge Benedict Kelleher told the Glyndon ward councillor she had denied a family a council home as he sentenced her at Inner London Crown Court. She will also […]
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Greenwich leader ‘frustrated’ at convicted councillor’s refusal to resign
Greenwich Council leader Danny Thorpe has said he is “frustrated” by disgraced Labour councillor Tonia Ashikodi’s refusal to resign from her £10,415-a-year position on the council despite her conviction for housing fraud. Ashikodi, who represents Glyndon ward, has so far not stood down from the council, two weeks after she was found guilty of two […]
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Resign now, Greenwich Council leader tells convicted Labour councillor
Greenwich Council leader Danny Thorpe has told a Labour councillor to resign after she was found guilty of two charges of housing fraud. Tonia Ashikodi, a councillor for Glyndon ward, was convicted yesterday at Inner London Crown Court on two charges of fraud by misrepresentation after she applied for council housing in October 2008 and […]
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Greenwich Labour councillor Tonia Ashikodi found guilty of housing fraud
A Greenwich Labour councillor who applied for and accepted council housing while owning three other properties has been found guilty of two charges of housing fraud by a jury at Inner London Crown Court. Tonia Ashikodi, who represents Glyndon ward, did not declare that she owned two houses in Thamesmead and a flat in Charlton […]
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‘Political colluding’ could have led to Greenwich councillor’s fraud trial, jury told
“Political colluding” could have resulted in a Greenwich Labour councillor being charged with housing fraud, a jury heard today. Summing up in the trial of Tonia Ashikodi, the Glyndon ward councillor who is facing two charges of fraud, her defence counsel Notu Hoon referred to an allegation that council housing data had been breached. He […]
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Greenwich councillor and father not guilty of perverting course of justice
A Greenwich councillor and her father have been found not guilty of perverting the course of justice, a week into a housing fraud trial. Judge Benedict Kelleher directed the jury at Inner London Crown Court to acquit Tonia Ashikodi, 30, and her father Tony, 50. He told the jury there was insufficient evidence to continue […]
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