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Police clear Ineos ex-convener Deans
'No evidence of criminality' by persecuted Unite official

Unite general secretary Len McCluskey hit out at "anti-union hysteria" yesterday after police cleared victimised

former Grangemouth refinery convener Stevie Deans of any wrongdoing.

Mr Deans quit his job in October amid allegations that he had enrolled refinery workers as paid-up Labour Party members without their knowledge in order to influence the branch's choice of candidate in an upcoming by-election in Falkirk.

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