The CPS has apologised and paid substantial damages to Michael Mates, the former MP for East Hampshire, after wrongly accusing him of an electoral offence when he stood as a candidate in the election for Police and Crime Commissioner for Hampshire in 2012.

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Mr Mates was represented by Alasdair Pepper and Antonia Foster.

Click here to read apology

See Daily Mail article here

See BBC article here

See Portsmouth.co.uk article here

See Hampshire Chronicle article here

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