Stranger and stranger in Aston

An email sent to council leader Mike Whitby, deputy council leader Paul Tilsley, Labour group leader Sir Albert Bore, and myself, set out claims that Hussain and his family are up to their necks in, you've guessed it, benefit fraud and tax evasion.
Labour are investigating ahead of tonight's selection meeting, and all of the allegations have been vehemently denied by Hussain, who a year ago was forced to withdraw as Labour candidate after admitting being an undischarged bankrupt. He has since settled his debts and is no longer a bankrupt.
It's the usual Aston madness, then.
A last minute selection process and a question hanging over the credibility of the favoured candidate.
What makes this shabby affair even more unusual is the apparent identity of the person who sent the email, who signs himself Ayoub Khan.
There is, as far as anyone knows, only one Ayoub Khan in Aston - and that is the Liberal Demcorat councillor for Aston, who is standing for re-election on May 1. But Khan, one of the masterminds behind the 2004 election petition, which exposed Labour postal vote fraud, and the 2007 petition alleging a Labour smear campaign against the Lib Dem candidate, is adamant that he did not write or send the email.
Whoever did send the email took care to include Khan in the mailing list. Khan has forwarded the email to the police fraud squad demanding a ful linvestigation.
The sender of the email also described himself as a "concerned member of Aston Labour Party", although party officials say there is no member of that name in Aston.
There are so many people in Aston who would benefit from the political assassination of Amjad Hussain that you would need a combination of Hercule Poirot and Sherlock Holmes to make sense of what is going on.
If the Liberal Democrats are not behind this - and there is no reason to belive that they are - then who else would gain advantage by getting rid of Mr Hussain?
Answers on a post card please.