It could have been much worse for the Labour Party if the sentencing had occurred prior to the recent election. Labour won control of Medway Council.
.He seems to have been prosecuted by something called the National Crime Agency, which I take to be a thinly disguised front for MI5.
His crime was storing and sharing a remarkable number of indecent images of young girls (some extraordinarily young) and attempting to reach out to children using a social media platform I had never previously heard of.
Clark was sentenced to more than two years in jail and will be on the sexual offenders register for ten years.
See Former Kent MP and Minister jailed for making and distributing indecent images of children (ITVx May 2023).
Paul Clark: Former MP jailed over child abuse images (BBC May 2023)
Former Gillingham MP Paul Clark guilty of having child sex abuse images (Kent Online 6 Dec 2022)
