Disappearing councillor Donald Adey - who brazenly continued to represent Trumpington after moving 400 miles away to Fife in Scotland has finally quit.
In an email announcing his departure he admitted it had proved difficult representing the Cambridge ward from Scotland.
"Yesterday the Royal Mail took charge of my letters of resignation from both Councils," read his email which was sent to BBC Cambridgeshire.
"Representing Trumpington has proved difficult from Fife."
Cllr Adey faced an avalanche of demands for his resignation since CambridgeshireLive first broke the story of his move in May 2018.
By attending a council meeting at least once every six months he was entitled to continue claiming £10,000 in allowances from the county council, and £4,500 from the city council.
His resignation is expected to prompt a by-election for his Trumpington seat for both the county and city councils in May when the local elections are held.
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When a Scottish newspaper - the Dundee Courier caught up with him days after the news of his move had been revealed he said constituents could Skype him if they wanted.
When challenged later that month outside a meeting in Cambridge, he claimed to have remained a 'busy bee' , but also admitted he had been trolled in the wake of the publicity about his move.
In the intervening months CambridgeshireLive has covered the repeated demands for Cllr Adey to quit.
In early February he attracted fury after he was the only councillor not to give up part of their allowances in solidarity with county council workers that took a pay cut as the cash strapped local authority struggled to balance its books.
Cllr Adey repeatedly failed to answer questions on email or phone.
CambridgeshireLive, which is contracted to run the BBC Local Democracy Reporter Service in Cambridge, sent Local Democracy Reporter Josh Thomas to demand answers from Cllr Adey in Fife after he failed repeatedly to answer calls.
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During an interview with Mr Thomas he said at that point he was planning to quit Cambridge City Council but remain a member of the county council.
Such was the concern over Cllr Adey's refusal to quit and the wide-held perception that he was twisting the system that Cambridge City Council's Labour leader Lewis Herbert and the county council's Conservative leader Steve Count wrote a joint letter to the government demanding a change in the law to stop the situation from being able to happen again.
Earlier this week Cllr Adey failed to attend a county council meeting, which meant that he was due to fall foul of the six-month rule on April 16.
CambridgeshireLive has contacted Cllr Adey for comment.
