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Deputy guilty of Code of Conduct breach

DEPUTY Neil Inder has been found guilty of breaching the States' members Code of Conduct and received a caution.

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Deputy Neil Inder has been found guilty of breaching the States members' Code of Conduct following comments he made about civil servants. (Picture by Peter Frankland, 24198999)

But the panel will have to convene again after Deputy Dawn Tindall, who submitted the first complaint, lodged another based on comments Deputy Inder made since the first one was made public.

The panel sat following a complaint from Deputy Tindall in which she said that Deputy Inder had breached section 9 of the code during an interview with BBC Guernsey in February.

She complained about what he had said regarding Visit Guernsey generally, but also that he had referred to her as someone with a 'tissue thin ego' and as 'an empty chair'.

Her complaint also referred to his description of civil servants in general, but in particular those at Visit Guernsey.

The panel treated her complaint in two parts, one about the remarks made about her specifically and the second about his comments regarding civil servants.

Members found that she had misconstrued his comments and that they were not directed at her and so in that regard, he had not breached the code.

But they found he had breached the code in respect of his comments about civil servants and the panel has given him a caution since it regarded the matter as a minor breach.

Deputy Inder had accept that caution 'and the matter is therefore now closed.'