Pembroke Town Council will reconsider a decision members made last month regarding the display of a portrait of disgraced ex-mayor Dai Boswell.

The motion to reconsider the matter has been brought forward by the town’s outgoing mayor Clr. Gareth Jones, and will be the first item on the agenda at a meeting of the town council, which will be held on Thursday (March 12).

At February’s meeting of Pembroke Town Council, members voted by 13 votes to two in favour of turning Mr. Boswell’s portrait around with his name to be shown on the back of the frame.

The decision sparked a massive backlash from the local community and prompted town councillor Jon Harvey to resign immediately following the vote.

It also prompted a small protest which took place outside Pembroke Town Hall on February 24.

During the initial discussion on the matter, Clr. Daphne Bush commented that the situation could have been handled with more “diplomacy” and with more “privacy” as relatives of the Boswell family ‘still walk around Pembroke’.

“There are relatives of this man around, they are human beings; this should’ve been dealt with so much more privately and shouldn’t be on our agenda,” she added.

Clr. Dennis Evans said that he felt that the press had ‘bullied’ Pembroke Town Council into making a decision.

He also slammed the press for making the issue public and called for the media to apologise.

“It seems to me as if we are trying to be bullied into making a decision we might not want to make.

“It gives the impression that we, as a council, celebrate him being there,” he stated.