A former Labour councillor has been spared jail over the sexual assault of a woman at his wife’s leaving do in the Square Mile.Daniel Lee-Phakoe, 38, pinched her bottom at least ten times inside upmarket Devonshire Terrace cocktail bar near London Liverpool Street Station.During the evening, he was “unrelenting” even though his wife was stood feet away on May 5, 2023.Lee-Phakoe, who was twice elected to Newham Council to represent the ward of Plaistow North, resigned from his role in October 2023. He was charged with a criminal offence in April last year and pleaded not guilty to sexual assault. But he was convicted by a jury after a trial this year.
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