A former justice minister has reiterated his controversial defence of ex-Tory MP Imran Ahmad Khan, who was convicted of sexually assaulting a teenage boy, arguing the disgraced politician did not get a “fair trial.”
Last month, Conservative MP Crispin Blunt removed a post from his website and Twitter feed in which he had claimed Khan was the victim of a “dreadful miscarriage of justice,” after the former Wakefield MP was found guilty of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy in 2008.
Retracting his initial statement, Blunt insisted, “I do not condone any form of abuse and I strongly believe in the independence and integrity of the justice system.”…