A Labour candidate is embroiled in a row with the Liberal Democrats after suggesting they would give convicted murderers and paedophiles the vote.
Is this man a paedophile?Roger Godsiff, who is standing in Birmingham Hall Green, issued leaflets showing nursery worker Vanessa George, who was jailed for abusing children.
He defended the move, saying his opponents were evading scrutiny, but Labour have now scrapped the leaflet.
The Lib Dems said they would not give those currently in prison the vote.
However, they stressed the issue needed to be looked at following a 2005 ruling by the European Court of Rights that found the UK's ban on extending the vote to convicted prisoners was unlawful
Ministers have been consulting on how to respond to the ruling since then with critics accusing them of kicking the issue into the long grass.
pdf of leaflet
Labour prints photos of serial killers next to Lib Dem candidate in election leaflet
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