UK: Ex-Tory MP Charlie Elphicke jailed for two years for sexual assaults
Former Dover MP guilty of three counts of sexual assault against two women
Elphicke, who represented the Kent constituency of Dover from 2010 until last year, was convicted in July of the charges, two in relation to a parliamentary worker in 2016 and one in relation to a woman at his family’s central London home in 2007.
“You are a sexual predator who used your success and respectability as cover,” he was told by Mrs Justice Whipple as she passed sentence at Southwark crown court.
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His first victim had suffered a “terrifying episode” when he chased her around his home chanting “I’m a naughty Tory” after assaulting her, said the judge, who added that she considered whether or not to impose a custodial sentence but had come to the conclusion that it was the only appropriate punishment.
Of the two offences against the second victim, who was a young parliamentary worker at the time, she said: “This was a campaign of harassment, it required planning to get her alone with you.”
Elphicke lost the Tory whip in 2017 when the allegations were referred to the police, but was reinstated in December 2018 before a vote of confidence in the then prime minister, Theresa May.
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https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/sep/15/ex-tory-mp-charlie-elphicke-jailed-for-two-years-for-sexual-assaults