Is this the most bizarre campaign ever? Meet the council candidate who admitted selling $40,000 of meth a day, having STDS, sleeping with hundreds of prostitutes and never paying taxes – and he WON

• Peter Lyndon-James won election to the City of Swan local council in Perth
• Days before the vote he confessed his sordid criminal past as a drug dealer
• He sold $40,000 worth of meth a day as well as guns and explosives
• Confessed to cheating on wife with hundreds of prostitutes and getting STDs
• Since converting to Christianity he turned his life around to help others
• Founded Australia’s ‘toughest’ drug rehab centre where patients go cold turkey 

Peter Lyndon-James was thrown in prison when he was nine and by the age of 30 was selling $40,000 worth of meth a day.

But this weekend he won a resounding local council election victory after admitting his startling criminal past and asking voters for forgiveness.

Now a ‘tough love’ drugs campaigner, he came first with 2,707 votes for the Altone ward in the City of Swan in Perth, ousting the sitting mayor in the process.

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H/t reader kevin a.