Cambridgeshire Police have ended their fifth and final investigation into allegations of massive electoral fraud at the Peterborough by-election. The force had been looking into five allegations in relation to the June 6 by-election.
Officers had previously declared that no offences were committed in relation to one allegation of bribery, two relating to postal votes and one relating to the burning of ballots. Now, the same conclusion has been reached into the final allegation, a breach of the privacy of the vote.
The Labour Party candidate Lisa Forbes won the by-election by 683 votes, narrowly defeating the Brexit Party’s Mike Greene into second place.
After the result numerous pieces of evidence were produced into of allegations of electoral fraud, with Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage describing Peterborough as a “rotten borough” over the postal vote fraud allegations.
Conservative deputy leader of Peterborough City Council, Cllr Wayne Fitzgerald, also alleged there was “harvesting” of postal votes. The election saw 9,898 postal votes returned at a rate of 69.6 per cent, with 400 rejected.
Labour has consistently dismissed the allegations, describing them as “nonsense” and a “desperate attempt” to excuse a defeat. This comes despite the involvement of convicted electoral fraudster Tariq Mahmood in the by-election who was not only pictured on the ground but at the count himself. He was of course seen being embraced by Jeremy Corbyn and Lisa Forbes.
The Brexit Party last month lodged a petition at the High Court calling for the allegations to be investigated.
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