CONSERVATIVE Parliamentary Candidate for Carlisle, John Stevenson, has had his election billboards defaced during his campaign.

The billboards were graffitied over with the words 'vote 4 genocide'. John Stevenson took to Twitter with a video show the defaced billboard, he said in the post: "A disappointing end to the day with the shameful defacing of my election billboards.

 

 

"We live in a democracy and it's important to respect differing political views. This will not stop my campaign. I have reported the matter to Cumbria Police."

In the video, John said: "We live in a democracy where there should be vigorous and robust debate but this is criminal damage. This is an absolute disgrace and the people that did it should be ashamed of themselves."