A CONSERVATIVE MP has been expelled from the party "with immediate effect" after being found guilty of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy.
Imran Ahmad Khan, 48, has served as MP for Wakefield in West Yorkshire since December 2019.
But on Monday he was found guilty of assaulting a teenager after forcing him to drink gin at a party 14 years ago.
The victim said he wasn’t “taken very seriously” when he made the allegation to the Conservative Party press office days before Khan was elected.
He made a complaint to police days after Khan helped Prime Minister Boris Johnson win a large Commons majority by taking Wakefield in the so-called “red wall” that had formed Labour’s heartlands in the Midlands and northern England.
Southwark Crown Court heard how Khan forced the teenager to drink gin and tonic, dragged him upstairs, pushed him onto a bed and asked him to watch pornography before the attack at a house in Staffordshire in January 2008.
The victim, now 29, told a jury he was left feeling “scared, vulnerable, numb, shocked and surprised” after Khan touched his feet and legs, coming within “a hair’s breadth” of his privates, as he went to sleep in a top bunkbed.
Khan - who denied sexual assault - was found guilty by the jury at Southwark Crown Court after around five hours of deliberations.
The judge, Justice Baker, said he will sentence Khan at a date to be fixed.
Khan made no comment as he left court, but his lawyers said he maintains his innocence and will appeal.
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