He plans to appeal the convictions
Disgraced leading councillor Tom Hollis has vowed he will not resign after he was found guilty of harassing a couple next door in lockdown and careless driving as he tore through the streets in his Range Rover. Hollis, the deputy leader of Ashfield District Council, who represents Huthwaite and Brierley, was clear in an interview with Nottinghamshire Live he will not give up the job he loves.
Mrs Jones-Golding had claimed Hollis held regular council meetings, with music, in his blow-up hot tub, but this was hotly denied by the councillor himself. And Judge Leo Pyle had accepted the defendant's description of this as being "ludicrous and frustrating". Council workers came to the front of the property in Windmill Close, Sutton-in-Ashfield, back in May 2020 when the UK was still in the throes of the first national lockdown. Hollis, classed as a keyworker, was running around helping his constituents through a difficult time.
He could be heard on the call saying "don't come near me with that" and "he has come at me with something again - I think it was a knife". Prosecutor Mark Fielding said Hollis had 'play-acted' as if he was being chased by the male victim with a knife and ran into the house "squealing, almost crying" and shouting he was being followed.
"At the time the professional and personal merged into one" Hollis was helping the elderly, the vulnerable, people in need, and it was one his proudest times to be a councillor. Maybe the reality was he was more focused on helping other people than himself and behaved in a way that was not appropriate, he said. "At the time the professional and personal merged into one."
The second trial By September 17 of 2020, Hollis was in trouble again. He was spotted driving in his newly-bought 68-plate Range Rover Evoque at more than 60 and 70mph in Outram Street, Sutton-in-Ashfield, after a night with councillors and food bank workers at Apollo Bingo, Mansfield.
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