High Court sets dates for hearing over postal vote fraud

12.00.00pm GMT Mon 6th Dec 2004

The High Court has set a date to start the High Court hearings into the electoral petitions over June's election in Bordesley Green and Aston wards in Birmingham. The High Court will start the hearings on February 21.

The election petitions allege that the six Labour candidates in the two wards owed their victories to a campaign of corruption and intimidation. The allegations are denied by the Labour Party. According to Fatima Patwa, solicitor for the petitioners in the Bordesley Green case claimed that at the Count three boxes of mysteriously appeared and "Every single vote in those three boxes was for Labour and in the same ink."