The 48-year-old now faces a prison sentence. If he is sentenced to more than 12 months in prison, he will automatically be barred from running for re-election in his constituency in Wakefield, West Yorkshire. A Southwark court in London has found Khan guilty of assaulting a boy at a party in Staffordshire in January 2008, 11 years before he became an MP. The judge, Justice Baker, said he would sentence Khan to a date to be determined. The court heard that Khan had put jeans and tonics on the boy before dragging him upstairs to watch pornography and stroking him on a bunk bed. Giving evidence, the victim’s parents burst into tears as they said their son was left “inconsolable” and “moved” after the incident at a home in Staffordshire. Police were called to the home and the boy reported the incident, telling police Kahn asked him to “show me porn” and told him he was a “good boy”, the jury was told. The 15-year-old did not want to go any further and the allegation did not continue at that time, but the complainant returned to the police when he found out that Khan was an MP in the 2019 general elections. Days before the vote, the complainant said he had contacted the Conservative Party’s press office to tell them what Khan had done to him. “They did not take me very seriously,” he said. “I explained that Imran Khan was a candidate for parliament and that he had been hastily removed. “I explained it and said, ‘I was sexually assaulted when I was a kid, when I was 15 years old.’ He said the woman he spoke to sounded “shocked” and gave it to someone else who sounded more “strict” and asked if he had any “proof”. I said “Yes, there is a police report”, and she said “Well…” and that was it. I said, ‘I’m going to go to the police,’ and she said, ‘Well, you do that.’ Khan, from Wakefield, helped Boris Johnson win a large majority of the Commons in 2019, taking over the constituency in the so-called red wall that had formed the heart of Labor in the Midlands and northern England. He won the 3,358 majority and was the first Conservative MP in Wakefield since 1932, although he was expelled from the party in June 2019 after being accused of sexual assault and has been independent ever since. Although he had previously denied that he was gay, he appeared during the trial to defend himself against the boy’s allegations, as well as from two other men who provided confirmation. He claimed that he only touched the elbow of the Catholic teenager when he “became extremely upset” after a discussion about his confused sexuality. But the jury did not believe him. In addition to hearing the complainant, evidence was given by the boy’s 18-year-old brother, who said that Khan lifted his skirt at the same party and asked if he was a “true Scotsman”. The man said other people had previously joked about his dress, an outfit traditionally worn without underwear, but he felt different when he was alone in a room with Khan. The jury also heard evidence from a third man who said he had been sexually assaulted in his sleep by Khan in Pakistan after a party where they smoked marijuana and drank whiskey. The man, then in his 20s, told a jury Khan offered him a sleeping pill as he shared a room at a hostel in Peshawar, a city in western Pakistan. He said that he later woke up and found out that Khan had sex with him, having taken off his boxer shorts, adding: “I pushed him and told him to stop and I said something like ‘what the hell are you”. act?’” He said Khan’s homosexuality was an “open secret” and that the MP sometimes behaved “quite erotically” or “tickled” him. Khan QC’s Gudrun Young suggested that the man’s perception was influenced by alcohol, cannabis and sleeping pills and that, despite being heterosexual, he had consented to sexual activity with Khan. The man categorically rejected the proposal.
