A TEAM of stewards led by a former Liverpool City Councillor will be questioned following allegations of assault on a protester at last week's Labour Party conference.
It was not known last night whether ex-councillor Peter Killeen will be one of the people quizzed over the way 82-year-old Walter Wolfgang was thrown out of the event in Brighton.
Mr Killeen, chairman of governors at Holly Lodge Girls School in Liverpool, was one of the stewards at the conference when Mr Wolfgang heckled Foreign Secretary Jack Straw.
Mr Wolfgang was ejected after he shouted "nonsense" during the politicians speech about the war in Iraq.
Last night, a spokesman for Surrey Police said: "Sussex Police is to investigate a complaint of assault in relation to the incident in which Mr Walter Wolfgang was removed by stewards from last week's Labour Party Conference in Brighton.
"A file will be prepared and sent to the Crown Prosecution Service."
The spokesman would not say who had made the allegation of assault.
Former bouncer Joe Ifill, 40, from Hove, and Mr Killeen, who sat on Liverpool City Council, were named last week as among the stewards involved in the fracas, which also resulted in Mr Wolfgang's fellow heckler, Steve Forrest, being ejected.
Mr Killeen had volunteered to be a steward at the event and he was appointed team leader for the area of the conference hall where the incident took place.
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