A LIB Dem council candidate sent a kinky picture of himself dressed as a mouse and chained to a dominatrix to his married Labour rival.

Kinky Dean Stone sent the X-rated snap married mum-of-two Siobhan Strode on Facebook after she said she was "too boring" to have skeletons in her closet.

2 Labour candidate Siobhan Strode was horrified to have received the unsolicited message Credit: SWNS:South West News Service

Stone has wished his rival good luck and asked if there was "anything embarrassing" in her past before sending evidence of his own colourful background.

The photograph, which appears to show him taking part in an erotic role-play with an unidentified female, was accompanied by the question "your opinion on this then?".

Mrs Strode, 32, of Umberleigh, Devon, was on a family camping holiday when she received the indecent image from Stone, who she knew through a by-election campaign in Great Torrignton, Devon.

She said: "I don't even know what I thought. It is repulsive.

"I am a nice person and I find it really odd that someone would send such an unsolicited image.

"I did not in any way encourage him to send me a photograph."

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Mrs Strode informed her campaign manager, James Craigie, who contacted the Liberal Democrats prompting an apology from Mr Stone who admitted the saucy pic was a "breach of acceptable boundaries of social media communication".

Mr Stone, whose lives in Great Torrington, was one of two Lib Dems contesting the election, along with three Labour candidates and one independent.

Three out of the six hopefuls will be elected to the town council after the votes are counted today.

2 Dean Stone sent the kinky snap in the run up to a local election Credit: Facebook

Mr Craigie originally said the matter had not been reported to the police by Labour, though Devon and Cornwall police were informed on Wednesday, according to Mrs Strode.

Mr Craigie added; "It was incredibly poor judgement from the candidate to send such an image.

''Whatever his sexual activities are is up to him but making them public is bizarre and worrying."

"It is her first election and she was uncertain about what to do. I thought that the Lib Dems should be aware that this sort of behaviour was not really appropriate."

Torridge District Council, which ran the election, said it was aware of the issue between the two candidates.

Returning Officer Jenny Wallace said: "The council is aware of the situation and we have been in contact with both parties but this is not a matter for the council's election team."

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