Ex-Tory MP convicted for sex attack on teenage boy officially quits seat

Imran Ahmad Khan, 48, was discovered responsible final month and was booted from his occasion (Image: LNP/Shutterstock)

MP Imran Ahmad Khan has formally stop his Wakefield seat after his conviction for sexual assault, the Treasury has mentioned.

The disgraced politician was kicked out of the Conservative Get together after he was discovered responsible of a intercourse assault on a 15-year-old boy.

In January 2008, Khan pressured the teenager to drink gin at a home in Staffordshire earlier than dragging him upstairs, jurors at Southwark Crown Court docket heard.

He then requested him to observe pornography earlier than reaching over the railing of his bunk mattress and touching his legs and groin.

After jurors delivered their responsible verdict on April 11, Khan was booted from the Tory occasion with speedy impact, however may nonetheless function an unbiased MP.

That very same week, he introduced his plans to resign as a consultant for the West Yorkshire cathedral metropolis, and now it has formally gone forward.

He didn't full all the formalities till final week, which means he acquired his full taxpayer-funded wage for April.

Khan acquired his full pay for April earlier than formally retiring as an MP (Image: PA)

Khan has now been appointed Steward and Bailiff of the Three A whole bunch of Chiltern by Chancellor Rishi Sunak, one of many formal mechanisms for an MP to stop the Commons.

There have been ideas that a correct course of wanted to be adopted earlier than he may resign.

Nonetheless, parliamentary officers burdened that an MP can resign at any second and pointed in direction of the case of Owen Paterson.

The Conservative MP introduced his resignation from the ‘merciless world of politics’ on November 4 after being embroiled in a lobbying scandal and an try and thrust back his suspension.

The following morning, the Treasury introduced he had been formally stood down from the seat of North Shropshire by being appointed to the Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead, the opposite archaic submit given to resigning MPs.

Khan had been resisting calls to resign till conceding it might be it ‘insupportable’ for voters within the West Yorkshire constituency to have muted illustration whereas he appeals the conviction.

He mentioned the transfer would enable him to ‘focus solely on clearing my title’. His departure will arrange a difficult by-election for each Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Labour chief Sir Keir Starmer.

Wakefield was one of many conventional Labour heartlands seats seized by the Tories within the 2019 common election.

Johnson will battle to retain the constituency after dealing with months of bruising allegations centring on Covid law-breaking events in Downing Avenue and after he was personally fined.

However Sir Keir will really feel stress to win again the seat that had been Labour for the reason that Thirties.

He's attempting to show to voters the occasion has reworked since he took over from Jeremy Corbyn.

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