New bid to strip name of sex-offender former Queensland mayor from road and bridge

Ipswich councillor made the wrong decision' in voting to keep Paul Pisasale's name on infrastructure

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The name of a jailed former mayor who committed sexual assault, corruption and other offences may be stripped from a street and a bridge after a Queensland councillor expressed regret for voting to keep his name on the infrastructure.

Paul Pisasale, a former mayor of Ipswich west of Brisbane, was sentenced to seven-and-a-half years in prison in 2020 after pleading guilty to more than 30 offences.

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