Tom Hollis, the deputy leader of Ashfield District Council, has been found guilty of careless driving after he sped along in his Range Rover Evoque with police in pursuit on his way home from bingo. Once one of the youngest councillors in Britain, Tom Hollis is now facing sentencing over harassing his former neighbours in lockdown and for driving without due care and attention months later in Sutton-in-Ashfield.
Hollis, 28, was convicted of two harassment charges by District Judge Leo Pyle on Thursday (September 22) involving his former neighbours in Windmill Close, Sutton-in-Ashfield, in May 2020. As relations between him and his neighbours broke down, Hollis had "play-acted" in a 999 call as if he was being chased by one neighbour, Luke Golding, with a one-foot to a foot-and-half long knife - which never happened.
Following the shock of that conviction, which Hollis told Nottinghamshire Live he was "disappointed" at and he planned to appeal, his second trial followed, where he faced a charge of careless driving.
