Sinead Gill16:26, Jul 01 2021
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Manawatū District mayor Helen Worboys and deputy mayor Michael Ford address a probe into allegations of misconduct.
The actions of two elected officials who targeted a colleague’s state of mind when disputing her complaints have been slammed as “disgusting” by the Mental Health Foundation. Manawatū District mayor Helen Worboys and deputy Michael Ford claimed councillor Hilary Humphrey suffered from a mental illness when revealing she had made two complaints against them, one internal and the other a police incident report lodged in January. A council probe, which cost $23,000, did not find any breach of its code of conduct, and Worboys and Ford pointed to Humphrey’s mental health when criticising the basis for her claims of intimidation sabotaging behaviour.
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