Reigate MP Crispin Blunt told the BBC he still believes Imran Ahmad Khan did not get a fair trial.
Mr Blunt told the BBC's Politics South East programme: "I remain confident [Khan] will win his appeal and I will be distressed about our justice system if he doesn't."Image source,In April, former Wakefield MP Imran Ahmad Khan was found guilty of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy in 2008
Southwark Crown Court heard he forced the boy to drink gin, dragged him upstairs and asked him to watch pornography before assaulting him. He claimed that the case against Khan had "relied on lazy tropes about LGBT+ people that we might have thought we had put behind us decades ago."Mr Blunt later said he had decided to retract his statement and insisted: "I do not condone any form of abuse and I strongly believe in the independence and integrity of the justice system."
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