SENATOR Ted Vibert has sold his four controversial websites back to their original owner, Adrian Walsh, a fellow member of the Jersey Democratic Alliance.

The contents of jfsc.com, jerseyfsc.com, jerseyfsc.net and jfsc.co.uk had caused a political storm as they had contained unsubstantiated and denied allegations against the director general of the Jersey Financial Services Commission, David Carse, and his deputy, Helen Hatton.

The Senator told the States yesterday that the decision was not connected to a proposition passed earlier this month instructing him to remove from www.jerseyfsc.com and any other website controlled by him the unsubstantiated statements relating to Mr Carse and Mrs Hatton.

He was also instructed to refrain from using websites under his control to make allegations against them or any other public officer without first raising and substantiating such allegations through appropriate channels.

But the Senator said that he had sold the websites because Mr Walsh’s employers, Anchor Trust, had given all staff three months notice after the Jersey Financial Services Commission rejected a licence application for the company to trade.

‘The former owner is therefore free to act without any constraints by his employer,’ he told the House.

And he added: ‘As a result of this sale, I have no responsibility for what appears on the four websites.’