SOLICITING

1. John Whiteman, Labour Councillor and Deputy Council Leader (Northumberland), who was also a senior member of the local police authority – Convicted and fined in 2002 for soliciting a prostitute in the red light district of Middlesbrough. The court heard Whitman was arrested in his car as Police discovered him in a “state of undress” with a lady of the night he had just paid £35 for sex. He subsequently resigned from the council. http://archive.thenorthernecho.co.uk/2002/1/6/149505.html