Boris's deputy Ray Lewis 'raided fund for the poor'

Boris Johnson's former deputy mayor was investigated by police over allegations of theft from a disabled man. Ray Lewis is also alleged to have taken some of the proceeds of a charity raffle and emptied a fund set up to help the poor in Nigeria. The community leader, who has been praised by Tory leader David Cameron for setting up the Eastside Academy for black boys, quit his London job last week after allegations of sexual misconduct and financial impropriety. He was forced to admit he had wrongly claimed to be a magistrate. Mr Lewis, 45, was ordained as a Church of England minister in 1990 but was banned from preaching in 1999. He was yesterday facing claims that during a posting to the Caribbean island of Grenada in 1997 he organised a charity raffle but failed to give the first prize - a car - to the winner. One of his... [read full story]                    

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