© South Wales Evening Post - 5 September 2005
Confidential documents went missing from a Gower councillor's Guildhall locker after a security sweep for a visit by the Prime Minister, it has emerged. Councillor Lewis is considering calling in the police after the mass of papers, collected over 30 years, disappeared.
An investigation was launched in July into the way Swansea councillors' lockers were searched in the Guildhall before Labour's Spring conference in the adjoining Brangwyn Hall. Security for the March event, which was addressed by the Prime Minister in the run-up to the General Election campaign, was extremely tight.
Councillor Lewis said: "The stuff I had was literally amazing.
"If I wanted any information on anything and anybody, it was there. I could have written my memoirs with it."
Among the other councillors to have discovered materials missing from their lockers was the leader of the Labour opposition, Councillor David Phillips.
Councillor Lewis said: "Nobody knows where the stuff has gone. I was devastated."
I have threatened to call the police in because I regard it as theft."
A Swansea Council spokesman said: "A number of members have drawn to our attention concerns in respect of their personal lockers in the Guildhall prior to the Welsh Labour Party Conference.
"We are continuing to make inquiries into the circumstances and will report back to the members concerned."
