London Tory politician sacked as magistrate after accusing judge of ‘two-tier justice’

Councillor Simon Fawthrop speaking to the media outside the Royal Courts of Justice - (PA)

A Conservative councillor has been sacked as a magistrate after he complained about “two-tier justice” and criticised a judge who had convicted four anti-ULEZ activists for harassing Mayor of London Sir Sadiq Khan.

Simon Fawthrop, who is elected to Bromley Council for the Orpington ward, made a series of controversial remarks outside Westminster Magistrates’ Court while acting as the spokesman for four defendants who had carried out a demonstration near the mayor’s south London home.