Green contender suspended after Mail discovered he admitted to a sexual assault in deleted blog post that also detailed being 'sectioned under the mental health act several times'

The Green party suspended an election candidate yesterday after the Mail discovered he had recently confessed to a sexual assault.

Chris Brody also described in his March 31st blog post about his 'bipolar condition' that he had once 'dragged' a woman 'down the street by the arm' and 'resisted arrest'.

The candidate, who is standing against former Conservative Party leader Iain Duncan Smith in London's Chingford and Woodford Green, said he had been 'sectioned under the Mental Health Act several times' and had 'pushed carers out of my way'.

The now deleted post was on Mr Brody's personal blog, which says on it that it is 'published and promoted... on behalf of Waltham Forest & Redbridge Green Party'.

In it, he also detailed how his condition made him believe that he was a 'messiah' who could communicate with animals and 'create a new world order from scratch through sheer force of my will and superhuman powers'.

The Green party suspended Mr Brody after the Mail alerted them to the posts.

But a constituent said the party had previously failed to respond to her after she repeatedly raised concerns about the posts and the suitability of the candidate.

The constituent, who has asked not to be named, said: 'In my emails, I asked them to provide me with some clarity on why Chris Brody has been chosen as the candidate to be our MP, given the very serious and deeply troubling nature of the blog.' She also asked how the party would be supporting him, given his condition.

But she said there was no response and instead the post his blog was just removed.

'I'm relieved that he has been suspended but, unfortunately, people will still be able to vote for him, and some may already have on postal votes.' The deadline for withdrawing candidates from ballot papers passed on June 7.

'It all raises serious questions about the Green Party's vetting procedure. I discovered his blog post within minutes of researching candidates in my constituency, yet they selected him as a candidate.

In the blog post, headlined 'It's a mad (mad, mad, mad) world', Mr Brody said the sexual assault happened 'in a 'secure' ward that was lacking proper supervision'.

'I've made plans to kill myself and take the whole planet with me', during a period he described as 'one extended depressive episode,' he added.

He said when he dragged the woman down the street by her arm he was 'attempting to carry her off to the New World'.

Mr Brody added: 'I've caused physical harm to people and things because [I] believed that the car I was driving could fly over the traffic in front of me'.

Mr Brody was previously accused of promoting anti-Semitic' conspiracy theories after he shared an article on Facebook two weeks after Hamas's October 7th atrocity claiming the attack may have been a 'false flag engineered to open the way to the genocide of the Palestinian people of Gaza'.

Earlier this month the Green party launched an investigation after a dossier suggested 20 of its general election candidates MP candidates shared antisemitic slurs and conspiracy theories online.

After being contacted by the Mail about the later blog post, a Green Party spokesman said: 'After these matters came to our attention, Chris Brody was suspended from the party.

'As Chris has now been suspended, he will no longer be able to campaign for The Green Party at this election and will receive no further support, other than pastoral support, from the party.' 

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