Voting con jury sent out to consider verdicts

  The jury trying a former Tory MP accused of lying to voters in a bid to help UKIP colleagues stand in local elections retired to consider its verdicts today (weds). Dr Bob Spink, 69, is said to have taken a ‘casual and misleading approach’ while canvassing on doorsteps ahead of the polls last May. Voters reported seeing ‘a very large man’, UKIP election agent James Parkin, 38, accompanying Spink as he collected signatures, Southwark Crown Court heard. Spink was…