Concern has been raised about how Lewisham Council was informed of former employee Gwenton Sloley’s home being wrongfully raided by police.

Cllr Alan Hall said it took three days before the council was told Mr Sloley’s property was raided during a manhunt for a drug dealer last year.

Mr Sloley is a leading anti-gangs advisor, community outreach worker and former consultant to Lewisham Council who had access to sensitive information and vulnerable people as part of his work helping those involved in serious violence.

His home was one of four properties raided on October 8 in relation to Myles Prospere, 25, who was jailed at Woolwich Crown Court in December.

Prospere lived at the Sedgehill Road address five years before Mr Sloley.

Cllr Hall asked: “Whilst Gwenton was working for the council it took three full days from the first raid to the time that he no longer worked for the council, and if he was a safeguarding risk why did it take so long and why was action only taken when he informed his line manager himself?

“There is a partnership arrangement and these are serious issues to do with serious violence and the relationship with the police,” Cllr Hall said.

Cabinet member for safer communities, Cllr Joani Reid, said she would look into Cllr Hall’s concerns and meet with Mr Sloley.

A Lewisham Council spokesperson said: “Mr Sloley was made aware that we were contacted by the police on 10 October 2018 and we took appropriate actions that day.

“We had no knowledge of any police activity relating to Mr Sloley prior to that day.”

The Directorate of Professional Standards (DPS) is investigating the Met Police’s conduct in relation to the raid of Mr Sloley’s home.

However Mr Sloley has claimed he was arrested on Tuesday despite no new evidence.

He said he is living in fear of his life after being moved out of the borough by the council.

Personal details, including his email address, were also shared externally when a civilian was copied into an internal police email thread.

Mr Sloley is also seeking £3 million from the Met police for lifetime defamation of character and £140,000 lost earnings after officers contacted colleagues across the UK informing them of the raid on Mr Sloley’s home, which led to NHS trusts and councils cancelling projects with his Crying Sons consultancy.