Two Bracknell councillors suspended in March have rejoined the Labour Party after being cleared. Mary Temperton, a former council leader, and Dr Roy Bailey, former cabinet member for children and young people, have been readmitted.
They were suspended after the former mayor and her son were convicted of perverting the course of justice and child rape.
The probe began over a fundraiser they were accused of helping to raise for former mayor Naheed Ejaz, who was convicted of helping her son Diwan Khan hide a phone containing evidence he raped a 15-year-old girl.
Ejaz was mayor from May 2023 to April 2024 and a councillor from May 2023 to September 2024; she resigned after her arrest.
Bailey is a recently widowed former senior police officer and the father of government minister Liv Bailey - the MP for Reading West and Mid Berkshire. Temperton is a prominent environmentalist and was council leader until her suspension.
The LDRS also revealed the rapist taxi driver son was granted his licence under a previous Conservative-led Bracknell Forest Council.
Ted O'Neill, Local Democracy Reporter
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