For over a year Liverpool Council has failed to respond fully to Freedom of Information questions about an alleged 'back door route' used by a number of Labour councillors to get parking fines rescinded by the local authority.
It was in October last year when the ECHO first began investigating claims several councillors from the ruling Labour group had seen their parking tickets cancelled via a former council officer in previous years. We first reported on this matter in January of this year.
The claims were initially brought to light by the city's Liberal Democrat leader, Cllr Richard Kemp, who said he became aware of the situation last year and put a complaint into the council's standards board.
