LONDON - The British police said on Monday (June 5) that they had charged a Member of Parliament from Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's ruling Conservative Party with racially aggravated behaviour. Bob Stewart was charged after the police received an online report from a man alleging he had been 'verbally racially abused' in December 2022. Stewart has been an MP for...
LONDON - The British police said on Monday that they had charged a Member of Parliament from Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's ruling Conservative Party with racially aggravated behaviour.
Bob Stewart was charged after the police received an online report from a man alleging he had been "verbally racially abused" in December 2022. Stewart has been an MP for over a decade and represents London's Beckenham constituency in the House of Commons.The police said Stewart was also charged with using threatening or abusive words or behaviour likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress as an alternative charge relating to the same incident, allowing the court discretion on the race element.
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