A councillor who made a number of false allegations, including that a member of the public was an ex-offender who had been imprisoned for violent crime and that another councillor behaved criminally by sharing a pornographic video has been reprimanded.
Paul Dowson, who is no longer on Pembrokeshire County Council previously represented Ukip and stood in the 2021 Senedd elections. He had previously been found to have breached the authority's code of conduct by putting comments about Black Lives Matter online.
He deleted his account shortly after the comments were published on June 8, 2020 and denied being racist or sharing the post. A council committee found he knew it was "likely to be considered racist".
