Bradshaw councillor, Cllr Mudasir Dean, who has admitted to being one of the two who failed to pay their council tax on time.ONE of two Bolton councillors who failed to pay their council tax on time has come clean — after a two-year legal fight by The Bolton News to name the pair.
Bradshaw councillor Mudasir Dean — who once stood as a prospective Tory MP — last night apologised to voters but said he would not stand down over the issue.
The 43-year-old, who said he fell behind with his council tax after losing his job, was one of two Bolton councillors summoned to court over late payment.
The other councillor is a Labour member — but the party’s leader Cllr Cliff Morris said he did not know their identity.
Cllr Dean finally spoke out yesterday — despite a 21-month legal battle between Bolton Council and The Bolton News resulting in a top judge saying that naming the councillors would infringe their human rights.
He said: “I am one of the two Bolton councillors referred to in recent press coverage concerning the late payment of council tax.
“I would like to apologise for any misunderstanding or upset caused.
“I decided to come forward for the sake of transparency and because speculation as to the identity of the two councillors has been unfair to council colleagues.”
Cllr Dean was ordered to go to court for unpaid tax in 2011/12 and 2012/13 — but he avoided a court appearance by settling his bill on both occasions.
The Tory councillor’s admission comes after The Bolton News used freedom of information laws back in October, 2012 to ask Bolton Council if any councillors had been summoned to court about unpaid council tax.
The council said there were two — one Labour and one Conservative — and that they were ordered to go to court to explain the non-payment of a total of £4,660.
But council chiefs refused to reveal the names of the two councillors citing data protection laws.
Surprise surprise, one one of Councillors is a Muslim, and i will go as far to say that the Labour Councillor will also defenalty be a Muslim, because most of the councillors in Bolton are Muslim in fact, it is swarming with them. And Councillor Cliff Morris is telling bare faced lies, of course he knows who the Labour Councillor is that has not paid his council tax, it's his job to know what is going on in the corrupt Labour council. I don't know who is worse, Cliff Morris or the drunk who was singing and whistling Nazi tunes, to a German lady who was standing for a Nationalist party, the obnoxious drunk who was showing himself up by whistling Nazi tunes is the Bolton Labour Councillor Guy Harkin.