Having been a Bodmin Town Councillor for 19 years I was the subject of a complaint from a member of the public over a letter I wrote accusing him of defamation. Without carrying out a proper investigation Mr Mansell told the town council they should censure me. Which was when the farce began because the town council tried to do so in an illegal debate that took place when I was not present, in other words in a kangaroo court. It took the council 8 months to rescind their illegal resolution and cost them £8950 in legal fees. They refused to apologize or do the honorable thing and pay my legal fees. In the meantime the complainant has admitted he libeled me apologized and paid me substantial damages. I wrote personal letter of complaint last August to the leader of the council accusing Mr Mansell of :- failing to carry out a proper investigation, bias, a denial of my human rights, lying about the remit of the LGO and writing a racist homily about me to my solicitor. None of which has he ever denied. The only reply I received was from another member of his department who claimed his racist homily was a colloquialism and also lied about the remit of the LGO. In my opinion both Cornwall Council and Bodmin Town Council are corrupt, law breakers,guilty of malfeasance, perfidy and sheer incompetence in wasting council tax payers money. Ralph Solomons