Conservative MP Crispin Blunt apologises for statement defending fellow MP Imran Ahmad Khan, who was convicted of sexual assault
Conservative MP Crispin Blunt has apologised for a statement defending fellow MP Imran Ahmad Khan, who was convicted of sexual assault.Mr Blunt had called the verdict a "dreadful miscarriage of justice" in a statement on his website.
Mr Blunt said he did not condone any form of abuse and believed in the "independence and integrity" of the justice system. Mr Blunt, a friend of Khan who attended some of his trial, said in his now-deleted statement that he was "appalled and distraught" by the verdict, calling it "an international scandal, with dreadful wider implications for millions of LGBT+ Muslims around the world".
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