A former Conservative MP has been jailed for 18 months following his conviction for sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy.
At a trial final month, Imran Ahmad Khan, 48, who was elected as Wakefield MP in 2019, was discovered responsible of groping the boy at a celebration in 2008.
The jury heard how he pressured the then teenager to drink gin and tonic and requested him to observe pornography, earlier than the assault at a home in Staffordshire following a celebration in January 2008.
The sufferer, now 29, mentioned he was left feeling “scared, susceptible, numb, shocked and stunned”, after Khan, then 34, touched his toes and legs, coming inside “a hair’s breadth” of his privates, as he went to sleep in a top-bunk mattress.
Khan, who denied sexual assault, was jailed for 18 months at Southwark Crown Court docket on Monday by Mr Justice Baker.
The choose mentioned he had proven no regret, including: “The one remorse you are feeling is in the direction of your self for having discovered your self within the predicament you face on account of your actions some 14 years in the past.”
Khan was expelled by the Conservative celebration following his conviction and later stood down as an MP.
Earlier this month, he formally lodged an enchantment towards his conviction.
A by-election is anticipated to be held on 23 June to elect a brand new MP for Khan’s former constituency.
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