/ 11 January 2005

Conservative Party website hijacked by porn peddler

A local Conservative Party association in Wales was trying to buy back its internet domain name on Tuesday after its site was hijacked and filled with hardcore pornography.

People logging onto www.delynconservatives.com hoping to read about political issues in Delyn, North Wales — population 70 000 — instead found such treats as ”Bus Stop Whores,” ”Bimbo Wives,” ”Teens for Cash” and ”Milf Hunter: Hunting Down Mature Moms Across America”.

The site was taken over after the Delyn Conservative Association took on a new domain name, but forgot to renew its ownership of the old one.

”We are buying the name back… and everything will be back to normal,” association secretary Gwadys Jones said. ”We have all been very upset by what happened but this should be an end to it.”

The opposition Conservatives are gearing up for a general election that Prime Minister Tony Blair is expected to call for May 5.

Delyn now is represented in the British Parliament by David Hanson, a member of Blair’s Labour Party who is also his parliamentary private secretary. – Sapa-AFP