LABOUR RACISM FEARS OVER AXED CANDIDATE

Secrecy veils sex-pest claims against Holyrood hopeful

- BY JOHN FERGUSON

PROMINENT anti-racism campaigners have voiced alarm over the deselection of an MSP set to be a Labour candidate at May's Holyrood election.

Foysol Choudhury, 56, has been removed as the party's hopeful for Edinburgh North after being suspended over allegations of sexual harassment, which remain neither resolved or fully investigated after three months.

Bangladeshi-born Choudhury, who received an MBE in 2004 for decades of community work, has not been told who his accusers are or details of the complaints against him.

There has been no complaint to police or to parliamentary authorities.