A Conservative MP has been strongly criticised for branding the conviction of a fellow Tory for sexually assaulting a teenage boy ‘an international scandal'.
But now former colleague Crispin Blunt has described the verdict as ‘a dreadful miscarriage of justice’.
‘His conviction today is nothing short of an international scandal, with dreadful wider implications for millions of LGBT+ muslims around the world.‘I sat through some of the trial. The conduct of this case relied on lazy tropes about LGBT+ people that we might have thought we had put behind us decades ago.
The Tory MP also attempted to stop key details of the case – including the age of his victim, his own homosexuality, and even his fondness for a gin and tonic – coming into the public domain. Neither Staffordshire Police nor the Crown Prosecution Service informed the media or the public when Khan was charged by postal requisition – the point at which suspects in criminal cases are routinely named.
On June 17 last year, the day Khan argued in court he should be granted anonymity, he retweeted then foreign secretary Dominic Raab’s message about ‘press freedom’ in Hong Kong.
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