Former Tory MP sentenced to 18 months in prison

Imran Ahmad Khan, a former Conservative MP, was sentenced to 18 months in prison for sexually assaulting a 15-year-old child.

The 48-year-old was found guilty in April of sexually abusing a youngster at a residence in Staffordshire in 2008. He was the MP for Wakefield from 2019 until this year.

Justice Baker of Southwark Crown Court sentenced him to 18 months in prison on Monday.

Khan allegedly forced the child to drink gin and tonic at a party before pulling him upstairs, throwing him into a bed, and then forcing him to view pornography before the attack, according to the court.

After Khan stroked his feet and legs, the victim, now 29, told a jury he felt “scared, defenseless, numb, frightened, and surprised.”

As he tried to sleep in a top bunk bed, Khan came within “a hair’s breadth” of his privates, he alleged.

He went to his parents, who filed a police report, but no further action was taken since the boy refused to file a formal complaint.

When Khan ran for the Conservative Party in the general election in December 2019, he told jurors that “it all came pouring back.”

“The only regret you feel is towards yourself for having found yourself in the circumstances you confront as a result of your acts some 14 years ago,” Mr. Justice Baker said.

When the victim submitted the complaint to the Conservative Party press office days before Khan was elected as MP for Wakefield.

He said he was not “taken very seriously.”

He filed a police report days after Khan’s victory in Wakefield helped Prime Minister Boris Johnson win a big Commons majority.