Finsbury Park, Tough Mudder damage, David Lammy's criticism and the response from the local leader

FP & Tough Mudder ~ did the council leader carelessly, recklessly or inadvertently, mislead a Member of Parliament about damage to our park?

David Lammy MP wrote a justifiably angry letter to the current local leader about the council's Events Team booking and Tough Mudder damage in particular.

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Here's the reply from Cllr Ahmet ~

N.B. the current council leader claimed,

"We have been assured that deliberate muddying of the ground did not take place over the weekend"

Most of the park damage from the booking by the Event Team booking was casual; but some of it appears to have been caused by their customer, deliberately:

I took the photos above and below on the Saturday morning while the council's Event Team booking was preparing for the mud=branded Event. A Tough Mudder-branded vehicle is shown on the northern part of our park, near the American Gardens with Ladder housing in the background.

Above: a cropped version of the first shot, showing tyre tracks along the middle of the running course. Cllr Ahmet agreed that the ground was wet and there was "extensive damage to the grass".

Rainfall alone does not normally cause such damage. Why was it necessary to drive a vehicle along the course on rain-soaked ground?

Deliberatey?

Was Cllr Ahmet's letter accurate?

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