Three Shrewsbury councillors, including the council leader, have been cleared after accusations were made about their treatment of ParkRight officers.

The accusations included making “snide comments”.

A council watchdog ruled there was no evidence Councillors Andrew Wagner, Stephen Williams and Peter Nutting had breached the code of conduct.

It comes after Councillor Judith Williams offered to write a letter of apology to ParkRight officials when she was found to have breached the code by failing to treat officers with “respect”.

Sandy Harper, the former manager of ParkRight, made a complaint against Councillor Wagner and husband and wife councillors Judith and Stephen Williams claiming comments made to employees in the street and remarks in emails breached the code.

But a committee found there was no evidence against Councillors Wagner and Stephen Williams. A separate complaint against Councillor Nutting accused him of calling officers “over zealous”.

The sub-committee found his comments were not disrespectful.

A report to the standards committee, which will meet on February 24, says Councillor Judith Williams was told to undertake training with the monitoring officer.

Today she said: “The letter has been sent.

“I have also had the training suggested.”

She added: “Stephen feels it is the correct decision and anything against him was unproven.”

Councillor Wagner said: “It was the right decision.”

Dave Roberts, SABC community safety officer, who now looks after ParkRight, said he found the four members extremely professional.