'Robocop' mayor to rid Middlesbrough of beggars within a year

18 October 2002

Middlesbrough's mayor Ray Mallon, the controversial former police officer nicknamed 'Robocop', told the ATCM conference how confrontation with a beggar had won him 80 votes in his electoral landslide.

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