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.
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See Daily Mail article here
See BBC article here
See Portsmouth.co.uk article here
See Hampshire Chronicle article here