Mayor ‘slapped my bottom’

A former Tory mayor slapped a woman’s bottom at a Royal Navy Museum charity fundraiser, a court heard. Mark Forsyth, 58, allegedly smacked the female guest’s behind at the event at Admiralty House in Whitehall on February 2 last year. Forsyth, the former Conservative mayor for Bradley Stoke near Bristol, spent 22 years in the British army, including postings in Cyprus and Bosnia. Paul Elgood, who works for the National Museum of the Royal Navy in Portsmouth, told jurors he…