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17/11/2006
Former Mayor given four month jail term
A former DUP Mayor of Coleraine has today been given a four month jail term for electoral fraud.
Dessie Stewart, 57, from Parker Avenue in Coleraine, pleaded guilty to pretending to be someone else to cast postal votes and and fraudulently stopping free exercise of a proxy vote during the last general and local elections in May 2005.
Mr Stewart was due for sentencing last month, however this was postponed after an incident outside the court, in which he allegedly punched a press photographer.
The former councillor has since resigned from Coleraine council, where he has held a seat since 1989.
(EF/KMcA)
Dessie Stewart, 57, from Parker Avenue in Coleraine, pleaded guilty to pretending to be someone else to cast postal votes and and fraudulently stopping free exercise of a proxy vote during the last general and local elections in May 2005.
Mr Stewart was due for sentencing last month, however this was postponed after an incident outside the court, in which he allegedly punched a press photographer.
The former councillor has since resigned from Coleraine council, where he has held a seat since 1989.
(EF/KMcA)
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