Hatfield town councillor reprimanded after threatening to ‘knock some sense’ into colleague
Councillor Michael ‘Mick’ Glynn allegedly threatened to hit Cllr Linda Curran with a gavel in a September 2025 meeting.
A controversial town councillor in Doncaster who threatened to hit a female colleague with a gavel and “knock some sense” into her has been reprimanded at a disciplinary hearing.
Former mayor of Hatfield Town Council, Councillor Michael ‘Mick’ Glynn, was reported to the City of Doncaster Council’s monitoring officer, after he allegedly threatened to hit Cllr Linda Curran with a gavel in a September 2025 meeting.
Cllr Glynn was still the town mayor at the time, so had the gavel as chair of the meeting.
According to the report by Neil Concannon, head of litigation and regulatory and deputy monitoring officer at Doncaster Council, the investigation obtained an audio recording of the incident.
A transcript included in the report quoted Cllr Glynn as saying: ““Linda I’m not here to argue with you. I’m here to chair this meeting and I’ve read the…
“No, you’re arguing again if I want to hit you with this gavel I will do somebody’s gonna have to knock some sense into you…”
He then said Cllr Curran was “back chatting again”, before banging the gavel and saying: “Silence, silence!”
In his report, Mr Concannon said Cllr Glynn’s words “amount to verbal abuse, shouting and potentially physical threats” and said this did “cross the line” of what was acceptable for the chair controlling the meeting.
Mr Concannon concluded Cllr Glynn had breached the Councillors’ Code of Conduct as a result.
The audit hearings sub-committee, held in the Doncaster Council chamber on March 9, 2025, also received evidence of another complaint against Cllr Glynn, relating to a Facebook post he shared in which he called a former town councillor the “most vile human beings” he had ever met.
Cllr Glynn’s post was directed at Mr Kenneth Knight, who was elected to Hatfield Town Council in May 2025, but, due to health concerns, he did not take up the role.
As a result, a petition calling for a by-election, which included Mr Knight as a signatory, was submitted, as is the democratic right of Hatfield residents.
In the Facebook post, Cllr Glynn accused Mr Knight of attempting to bankrupt Hatfield Town Council.
There was no evidence of this claim, which Mr Concannon told the hearing was “false and potentially libellous”.
Mr Concannon additionally concluded that Cllr Glynn could not have “honestly believed his allegations were truthful”.
Cllr Glynn attended the meeting in order to answer questions from the sub-committee and insisted he had done “nothing wrong” and attempted to justify the threat he’d issued Cllr Curran.
He claimed it was the event that led him to resign as town mayor.
After a period of deliberation, the audit hearings sub-committee, chaired by Reform UK’s Cllr Jason Charity, accepted Mr Concannon’s findings and conclusions.
It is the second disciplinary hearing Cllr Glynn has been subject to in the space of a year. Cllr Glynn was previously sanctioned by the committee on March 16, 2025, for making “misogynistic” remarks during a debate with female Hatfield Town Council members.
He had previously been the subject of another hearing in 2019, and Mr Concannon made not of the fact Cllr Glynn had not completed any of the sanctions made of him at either meeting – including written apologies and training courses.
As a result, councillors at the March 2026 committee, provided Cllr Glynn with seven sanctions.
They included requirements to provide written apologies to Cllr Curran and Mr Knight, and to attend a training course at the expense of Hatfield Town Council.
However, for the first time, the hearing recommended that Cllr Glynn “be excluded from attending the offices or premises of Hatfield Town Council” with the exception of “pre-arranged meetings of the town council”.