MP Imran Ahmad Khan has been thrown out of the Conservative Party after being found guilty of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy.
A spokesperson for the Tories said Khan, 48, had been expelled “with immediate effect” following the verdict at Southwark Crown Court on Monday.
Jurors found Khan was guilty after hearing how he forced the teenager to drink gin and tonic, dragged him upstairs, pushed him on to a bed and asked him to watch pornography before the attack at a house in Staffordshire in January 2008.
The victim 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.
The MP was originally suspended from the party in anticipation of Monday’s verdict, with the decision to expel him taken after confirmation of the jury’s ruling.
But Khan’s defence team has since issued a pledge to appeal against his conviction, which could cause delays to a potential by-election in his Wakefield seat.
Khan will be expelled from the House of Commons if he is handed a prison sentence of more than a year, or otherwise could be subject to a petition to oust him in the recall process.
The judge, Mr Justice Baker, said he will sentence the disgraced MP on a later date.
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