Coun Glen Gibbins has been convicted over "grossly offensive" messages16:01, 09 Nov 2026Updated 16:44, 09 Nov 2026Sunderland City Councillor Glenn Gibbins outside South Tyneside Magistrates' Court, in South Shields. (Image: Owen Humphreys/Press Association)Sunderland councillor Glen Gibbins, 66, has been convicted of making "grossly offensive" comments about the city's Nigerian community. The former Reform UK councillor, elected in May, was found guilty after a three-hour trial at South Tyneside Magistrates' Court.Gibbins, of Briar Vale Road, had made the comments on Facebook in March 2024. He has previously accepted that the comments were offensive but not that they were grossly so, which...