CALLS are once again mounting for a disgraced councillor to resign after he was officially kicked out of the Tory party.

Councillor Robert Benson became infamous after it emerged he was caught taking part in a sex act in a Rayners Lane public toilet and was suspended from his partly shortly afterwards.

But he appeared before his former colleagues to make his case at a special party meeting on September 1, to plead his case.

Councillor David Ashton, leader of Harrow Council, said: “He has been expelled. I suspended him effectively as soon as the charges were confirmed but there was no group meeting until September 15.

“He basically applied to rejoin the group and the group decided he couldn’t rejoin.”

Cllr Benson, who is still sitting as an independent, has also been kicked off all his old council committees, and the Labour opposition are pressing for him to give up his Harrow Weald seat as well.

Councillor Bill Stephenson, leader of the group, said: “I’m pleased that he’s been removed from his committees and I’m surprised it’s taken so long to do.

“I still hope he’ll do the proper thing which is to stand down voluntarily.”

Cllr Benson was caught recieving oral sex from a 56-year-old Essex man by officers of Rayners Lane Safer Neighbourhood team, at around 3.45pm, on Wednesday, June 25.

After initially claiming the act was performed against his will, he eventually pleaded guilty at Wimbledon Magistrates Court on Wednesday, August 6, and was fined £205.

The council has already filled the position he used to hold on a series of panels, including an influential planning committee where he has been replaced by Councillor Hussain Akhtar, of Canons ward.

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