Since then, he and his family have been accused of everything from theft to murder.
Ward even accused staff from the council of harassment during the 2005 general election campaign.
Any trials should come when peace is negotiated - and for accused from all sides at the same time.
They had been accused of everything possible, from child abuse to contributing to delinquency.
The bankers are accused of illegal stock price manipulation from 1979 to 1983.
He stands accused now, especially from the right, of deceit and hypocrisy.
Desperately, he stared about, to receive accusing glances from all except his own men.
Its forces were accused of serious human rights violations and looting virtually from their arrival in the country.
The questions began then, but because he had accused himself from the start, he fielded them easily.
He has been accused of everything from bigotry to raiding the public treasury.