Town hall chiefs have banned four residents from attending public meetings for 12 months after two chaotic gatherings of Oldham’s full council.
Letters from the local authority have been issued to people who are deemed to have been disruptive, and engaged in ‘threatening and aggressive behaviour’ at meetings at the Civic Centre on June 27 and July 13. Scores of protesters had attended both of these meetings, the former of which was held specifically to discuss the findings of the review into allegations of historic child sexual exploitation in the borough.
Four people have been informed this week they have been banned by the council from attending further meetings for a period of a year, and that their ‘behaviour’ has been reported to Greater Manchester Police. The authority says letters have been sent to those people where behaviour was believed to have met a threshold for action, and ‘will not be tolerated’.
