Green goes before disciplinary hearing in first case of its kind for five years |
Alex Catt, a Norwich City councillor, faced the standards committee this week over messages he posted on X at the height of the affair, in which a fellow Green was accused of shouting "Nazis" at women holding a silent vigil in the city centre.
In the posts, councillor Catt branded Labour "a rotten and insidious institution" and claimed the party was "fuelling a transphobic hate campaign" by raising concerns about the behaviour of colleague Charlie Caine, who is a transman, a biological female who identifies as a man.
Alex Catt will stand down as the Sewell councillor after next week's election (Image: Green Party)
Labour lodged a formal complaint, calling the allegations "slanderous" and a breach of the council's code of conduct - triggering a year-long investigation before the case finally came before the standards committee at 2.30pm on Wednesday.
The hearing was held behind closed doors after the council used its right to exclude the press and public from proceedings.
The verdict is now unlikely to be released before voters go to the polls next Thursday, by which time he will no longer be a councillor as he is standing down.
The standards hearing is the first of........