TFA Council
Member
Walter Sweeney was Conservative Member of Parliament for the Vale
of Glamorgan from 1992 to 1997.
In 1997 he moved a "Victims of Crime"
Private Member's Bill in the House of Commons "to make it less
likely that a person who purports to act in self-defence or in defence of
property against a criminal will himself end up being sued or prosecuted
for his actions".
Born on St George's Day, 1949, he was
educated at Lawrence Sheriff School, Rugby; Darwin College, Cambridge;
Hull University and Aix-Marseille University. He was a Councillor on
Bedfordshire County Council from, 1981 to 1989; Parliamentary Candidate
for Stretford, Manchester in 1983; a member of Glamorgan Community Health
Council from 1991 to 1992; Member of Parliament for the Vale of Glamorgan
from 1992 to 1997. He was a member of the House of Commons Home
Affairs Committee. Married, with two daughters, he lives in North
Cave, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, where he practices as a solicitor.
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