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Imran Ahmad Khan
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He sexually molested a 15-year-old and was expelled from his party for it – now Tory MP Imran Ahmad Khan has announced his resignation, as the Guardian reports.
There are to be by-elections in his Wakefield constituency in Yorkshire, UK.
Khan was found guilty on Monday of getting a boy drunk on gin and then taking him into a bedroom in 2008.
There he forced him to watch porn with him before he attacked himself and touched him on various parts of his body.
The now 29-year-old victim explained to the court that the police were called in because of the incident.
The teenager did not want to pursue the case at this point, the BBC reported.
The man, who wishes to remain anonymous, contacted the Tories in 2019 after learning that Khan would be running in the general election.
He was "not taken very seriously" at the time, he reported.
After Khan was elected to Parliament, he turned himself in to the police.
The plaintiff's older brother said in court, according to the BBC, that the MP asked him if he was "a real Scotsman" and lifted his kilt before "attacking" him at the same party.
Khan tried to ban reporting
Khan unsuccessfully tried to ban the press from reporting the case after the verdict.
He said his life could be in danger if the case against him were made public.
He argued that as an Ahmadi Muslim, the consumption of alcohol and homosexuality were strictly forbidden in his faith and reporting on these matters would put him "at risk to his security here and abroad."
He appealed Monday's conviction.
In a statement, he admitted the trial would take "many more months" and leave his constituents without proper political representation, the Guardian newspaper reports.
"I have therefore regrettably come to the conclusion that it is intolerable for voters to go years without an MP to represent their vote in Parliament," he added.
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