Tory accused of election fraud

A Tory party election agent falsified signatures on candidate forms in the 2018 local elections, a court heard. Diana Danescu, 26, allegedly sent 14 candidate forms with false signatures to the town hall’s returning officer and chief exec Tim Shields during the Hackney Council elections, Southwark Crown Court heard. Danescu, who was not the agent for any of the five Tory councillors elected on May 3, also ran as a candidate in the Chadwell ward, Redbridge, but she failed get…