Lanes police send file of evidence in case against local authority figures

摘要

Police have finally submitted a file of evidence to prosecutors in relation to four local government figures more than a year after they were arrested. A Lancashire police spokeswoman said a file had been sent to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) -15 months after the arrest of former Liverpool City Council chief executive Ged Fitzgerald, the authority's ex-interim boss David McElhinney, former Lancashire CC chief executive Phil Halsall and the council's current leader Geoff Driver on suspicion of perverting the course of justice and witness intimidation.