An investigation into allegations a Labour MS carried out "vulgar and grossly offensive personal attack" on social media has found he did breach the Senedd's code of conduct. Hefin David, the Senedd member for Caerphilly, apologised and deleted the tweet hours after publishing it.
The recipient did not make the complaint, but a report by the standards commissioner Douglas Bain concluded that he had breached the Senedd's code of conduct. There will now be a vote in the Welsh Parliament next week as to whether he should be formally reprimanded. Mr David admitted to the commissioner that the tweet was inappropriate.
The committee decided not to include the contents of the tweet in its report "as we consider it may cause further distress to the subject and their family to do so, particularly as they were not the complainant".
