The High Court ordered all ballot boxes sealed to preserve evidence， but did not order a recount.

This is one reason why socialists have long campaigned for such empty housing to be seized by councils and used to reduce the council housing waiting list.

Outright seizures of firms by criminal raiders, usually in cahoots with security or justice officers, are frequent.

'If the world knew what I was doing, they would hang me from the highest tree, ' Jeffs wrote in a chilling journal entry from 2005 - one of thousands of pages of notes seized by authorities.

Police have closed the birthing centre she founded and seized its records.