The British Conservative Party expels an MP after being accused of sexually assaulting a minor

LONDON, 14 Apr. (DPA/PE) –

The British Conservative Party has expelled MP Imran Ahmad Jan from its ranks on Thursday after he was found guilty of sexually assaulting a fifteen-year-old teenager.

Jan has also chosen to leave his seat for Wakefield because, as he expressed in a statement published on his Twitter profile, “due to long delays in the legal process”, his constituents “have been without visible parliamentary representation for a year “, which seems “intolerable”.

The assault dates back to 2008, when Jan attended a birthday party in Staffordshire as a “friend of a friend” of the boy’s sister. At one point during the celebration, he accosted the victim on some stairs and led her into her room, where he threw her on the bed and encouraged her to watch pornography of her before groping him.

The court has heard the victim recount that he was forced to drink gin before being asked to look at pornography and recalling that he felt “scared, vulnerable, numb, shocked and surprised” after Jan, then without any political position, touched him. until approaching her private parts and trying to sleep in the same room.

The complaint was filed in 2019, shortly after Jan, who has always denied the facts, also blaming the victim for certain traumas, was elected deputy in the general elections in December. At that time, he has explained, “everything boiled over” and he chose to take legal action, reports the British press.

Jan, 48, will be summoned at a later date to have the final sentence read to him.