Suspended Reform councillor guilty after saying ‘Nigerians should be melted down’

Glenn Gibbins argued his posts were not grossly offensive (Picture: Owen Humphreys/Press Association)

A suspended Reform candidate who said Nigerians should be melted down to ‘fill in the pot holes’ has been found guilty.

Glenn Gibbins was convicted of a malicious communication two years before he was elected as a councillor for Hylton Castle Ward in Sunderland in early May.

In now deleted posts, he ranted on social media he ‘carnt [sic] believe amount of Nigerians in town’ and they ‘should melt them all down and fill in the pot holes’.

Gibbins, who

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