A senior MP has launched an astonishing public attack on the Metropolitan Police following what he claims is an attempt by a third party to blackmail him over a false claim of sexual assault.
Julian Knight was suspended by the Tory Chief Whip in December after he was reported to the police over the allegation, forcing him to step aside as chairman of the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee.
Now Mr Knight, 51, has written to Sir Mark Rowley, the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, to complain that his reputation has been destroyed after being ‘widely and repeatedly publicly named as being suspected of a sex crime’.
The case follows a string of so-called ‘Pestminster’ scandals, which has led to calls for reforms to the culture at Westminster. Some critics have argued that the re-action to the abuses has led to an ‘over-correction’, under which false or exaggerated claims have led to MPs’ reputations being unfairly tarnished before they have been properly investigated.
Julian Knight (pictured) was suspended by the Tory Chief Whip in December after he was reported to the police over a claim of sexual assault
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