A former DUP mayor convicted of a sex offense involving a teenage boy has been stripped of his MBE.
Thomas Hogg, who was mayor of Antrim and Newtownabbey in 2014/15, was sentenced in 2021 after being found guilty of attempting to incite a boy in sexual activity.
The 34-year-old resigned from the DUP in 2019, and also resigned as a councillor after details of the charge emerged.
First elected as a DUP councillor in 2011 to the old Newtownabbey Borough Council, Hogg was made an MBE in the 2016 Queen's Birthday Honours List for services to local government.
He became the first mayor of the new Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council upon its formation.
He was convicted in March 2021 for inciting a 15-year-old boy to take part in a sex act while attending a function.
Belfast Magistrates Court heard how Hogg had met the boy at a previous event the week before, and the proposal had a serious effect on the victim.
The former councillor was handed a three-month suspended prison sentence and ordered to pay the victim £1,000 compensation.
Hogg was also placed on the sex offenders' register for seven years.
Following his conviction, Hogg moved to London to take up a job with a wealth management firm.
Upon being convicted, it emerged senior DUP figures sought to have their former party colleague stripped of his MBE.
Honours can be revoked in a process known as forfeiture, for reasons including being convicted of a criminal offence.
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