Tory MP Imran Ahmad Khan to go on trial today accused of groping 15-year-old boy in 2008
Tory MP Imran Ahmad Khan is due to go on trial today accused of groping 15-year-old boy in 2008
Imran Ahmad Khan, 47, is the Conservative MP for Wakefield, in West YorkshireThe MP is accused of groping a 15-year-old boy in Staffordshire in January 2008 Mr Khan denies offence and is due to stand trial today at Southwark Crown Court
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A Tory MP is due to go on trial accused of groping a 15-year-old boy.
Imran Ahmad Khan, 48, who represents Wakefield in West Yorkshire, denies a single charge of sexual assault against the then teenager in Staffordshire in January 2008.
The politician, who has been suspended by the Conservative Party, will stand trial at Southwark Crown Court from Tuesday.
Imran Ahmad Khan, 48, (pictured) the Conservative MP for Wakefield, West Yorkshire, is due to go on trial today to face an allegation that he groped the teenager in Staffordshire in 2008
The case, which is expected to last around two weeks, will be heard by High Court judge Mr Justice Baker.
In a statement issued ahead of his last court appearance in June 2021, Ahmad Khan said: ‘It is true that an accusation has been made against me.
‘May I make it clear from the outset that the allegation, which is from over 13 years ago, is denied in the strongest terms.
‘This matter is deeply distressing to me and I, of course, take it extremely seriously.
‘To be accused of doing something I did not do is shocking, destabilising and traumatic. I am innocent.
‘Those, like me, who are falsely accused of such actions are in the difficult position of having to endure damaging and painful speculation until the case is concluded.
The MP – who has been suspended by the Conservative Party – faces a single count of sexual assault against the then-teenager. Pictured, Ahmed Khan with Prime Minister Boris Johnson
‘I ask for privacy as I work to clear my name.’
Mr Khan, from Wakefield, helped Boris Johnson win a large Commons majority in 2019 – with the Tories now representing 45 per cent of the Northern Powerhouse constituencies
He turned Wakefield – that was previously in the so-called ‘red wall’ that formed Labour’s heartlands in the Midlands and the north of England – blue with his win.
Khan has had his Conservative whip suspended, meaning he sits as an independent in the Commons.
He pleaded not guilty last year and is on unconditional bail.
According to his website, the MP was born in Wakefield, where he attended the independent Silcoates School before going to university at the Pushkin Institute in Russia and graduating from King’s College in London with a bachelor’s degree in war studies.
Before entering Parliament, he worked for the United Nations as a special assistant for political affairs in Mogadishu.
