Lutfur Rahman with supporters after being elected Tower Hamlets’ mayor
(Picture: NIGEL HOWARD / Evening Standard)Seven years ago it looked like Lutfur Rahman’s political career was finished. An excoriating High Court judgment by the Electoral Commissioner Richard Mawrey QC had found the mayor of Tower Hamlets and his agents guilty of multiple counts of corrupt and illegal practices.
Mr Rahman was dramatically ousted from office and barred from politics for five years. The 200-page judgment was damning, upholding allegations of personation [the legal formation of “impersonation” meaning “to assume the identity of another person with intent to deceive”], bribery, false statements and undue influence.
