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Labour MP Charged With Criminal Damage
Updated:07:13, Saturday April 19, 2008
A Labour MP has been arrested and charged with criminal damage.
Rob Marris, MP for Wolverhampton South West, is accused of causing damage to a white van at a bus stop in Wolverhampton.
Marris denies charge
The MP, a former solicitor, denies climbing over the bonnet of a parked van to board a bus in Jeffcock Road, Penn Fields, last month.
Mr Marris, 53, said: "I have no comment to make.
"This is a personal matter which has no bearing on my parliamentary duties and the law must quite properly take its course.
"I intend to plead not guilty to this charge."
A West Midlands Police spokeswoman told the Express and Star newspaper: "A 53-year-old man from Wolverhampton has been arrested on suspicion of causing criminal damage following an alleged incident at a bus stop in Jeffcock Road.
"He has now been charged with the offence."
Mr Marris was arrested and charged after attending Bilston Street police station at the request of police.
He is expected to appear before magistrates later this month.
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One might think that perhaps the van shouldn't have been parked at the bus stop in the first place, but putting that aside, the good people of Wolverhampton will sleep easier in their beds knowing there is zero tolerance to this kind of thing.
Labour MP Charged With Criminal Damage
Updated:07:13, Saturday April 19, 2008
A Labour MP has been arrested and charged with criminal damage.
Rob Marris, MP for Wolverhampton South West, is accused of causing damage to a white van at a bus stop in Wolverhampton.
Marris denies charge
The MP, a former solicitor, denies climbing over the bonnet of a parked van to board a bus in Jeffcock Road, Penn Fields, last month.
Mr Marris, 53, said: "I have no comment to make.
"This is a personal matter which has no bearing on my parliamentary duties and the law must quite properly take its course.
"I intend to plead not guilty to this charge."
A West Midlands Police spokeswoman told the Express and Star newspaper: "A 53-year-old man from Wolverhampton has been arrested on suspicion of causing criminal damage following an alleged incident at a bus stop in Jeffcock Road.
"He has now been charged with the offence."
Mr Marris was arrested and charged after attending Bilston Street police station at the request of police.
He is expected to appear before magistrates later this month.
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One might think that perhaps the van shouldn't have been parked at the bus stop in the first place, but putting that aside, the good people of Wolverhampton will sleep easier in their beds knowing there is zero tolerance to this kind of thing.
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