A sitting Liverpool councillor swore at a 14-year-old girl after she put a Lib Dem leaflet criticising him through his letter box.
David Cummings, who represents Wavertree for Labour, kicked off at the teenager as she was campaigning for the Lib Dems on May 3, 2021. He was later convicted of verbally abusing her after a trial last week. It is the 57-year-old’s second conviction while a sitting councillor and follows a criminal damage conviction back in 2020 for wrecking a neighbour’s CCTV camera.
Sefton Magistrates’ Court heard last week that the girl was delivering Lib Dem leaflets with her dad in the run up to the local elections, which saw a third of Liverpool’s 90 council seats up for election in addition to elections for the mayor, metro mayor and the region’s police and crime commissioner. Cummings was not up for re-election that year but was referenced on a leaflet being distributed by the Lib Dems during their campaign. The ECHO understands the leaflets referred to Cummings’ criminal damage conviction.
