A ultra loyalist of the old Knowsley dictator Kaiser Keight has vanished without trace. Huyton Councillor Charlie Preston has done a Lord Lucan on his chums who rule the council

. Whilst decent Councillors like Kirkby's John King and Denis Baum were being suspended for expressing free speech, on planning and the suppression of information. Preston was enjoying the fruits of Keights's patronage by eagerly accepting the key positions, and the dosh that came with them. What the Senior officers of the Council, and Police made of it was an entirely different matter.

Back in 1982 Preston was jailed for five years at Liverpool Crown Court for assault and burglary. He was one of four men who burst into the bedroom of a 64 year old man when he was asleep and started punching him.

Sentencing Preston to five years imprisonment, Judge Davies told Preston " you invade the home of an old age pensioner when he was lying in bed and assaulted and beat him, he described the burglary of an occupied dwelling where you assault and beat a pensioner with intent to rob him is as bad a matter of burglary as I can remember "

It has been reported by the Kirkby Times that ex leader Keight went on the warpath to destroy those Councillors who fought to save the St Kevin's playing fields, and protested to new labour about his leadership, most of these were either bought off, or seen off by Keight, with new labours blessing.

What about Charlie Preston member for Page Moss? Well until he did a runner, he was,- wait for it,- Deputy Cabinet member for Youth, Citizenship, and Community Safety ! Appointed by none other than Keight, who was fully aware of his background, as the victim of his crime was a relative of a senior Councillor. This is another example of the depths Keight plunged to, to keep the Huyton stranglehold on the Council, and the honest Kirkby members sidelined.

We can only imagine the thoughts of the victims family.

This is only part of the horrors of new labour in Knowsley Council

Over to you Mr ( Clean up ) Blair !