Imran Ahmad Khan, 48, is said to have forced the then-15-year-old to drink gin and tonic before dragging him upstairs and asking him to watch pornography before stroking him on a bunk bed after a party in January 2008. The parents of the alleged victim burst into tears as they told the Southwark Crown Court on Thursday how their son was “comforted” and “moved” after the incident in a house in Staffordshire. A police report was issued at the time, but the boy did not want to make a formal complaint, the court heard. However, he said that “everything went back” after he found out that Khan was a candidate to become a Wakefield MP in West Yorkshire in the 2019 general election. Days before the vote, the alleged victim said he had contacted the Conservative Party’s press office to inform them of his allegations against Khan. “They did not take me very seriously,” he said. “I explained that Imran Khan was a candidate for parliament and that he had been hastily removed. I explained it and said “I was sexually assaulted when I was a child, when I was 15”. He said the woman he spoke to sounded “shocked” and gave it to someone else who sounded more “strict” and asked if he had any “proof”. “I said ‘Yes, there is a police report’ and she said ‘Well …’ and that was it. “I said, ‘I’m going to the police,’ and she said, ‘Well, you do that.’ Image: Alleged victim says Conservative press office ignored warnings about Mr Khan Days later, Khan was elected Conservative MP to the so-called “red wall” that was the heart of Labor in the Midlands and northern England. Khan has been expelled from the Conservative Party, but remains a Wakefield MP. The alleged victim, who said he voted for Labor, insisted that his complaint “had no political grounds”. “If it was, I would have done it before the general election,” he added. Khan, who was 34 at the time, denies any sexual assault charges for the alleged incident. He allegedly touched the boy’s feet and legs and reached a short distance from his own hair. The complainant’s father cried in the witness box as he said his son was “inconsolable” after the alleged attack. “I was shocked, trembling, crying and it seemed to me hours before I uttered the words ‘I was harassed,’” he said. His mother said Khan looked like a “very charming man” who thought he was a “foreign king”. She described her son as an “absolutely happy boy” who had tried to grow up to be an “Enid Blyton being”. “He was a small child, he was a boy. He was not a man and I think that is what has upset me the most in all this. “He was a kid when he went upstairs that night and suddenly he had to face what he had to face.” Crying, he added: “I will never, as long as I live, forget this: (my son) just trembles and trembles and trembles. “I could not make sense of it. I just grabbed him and tried to calm him down and stop him trembling. He spoke in silent tones and simply said “He was trying to feel me, he was trying to feel me”. Khan, who is gay and Muslim, said he only touched the Catholic teenager’s elbow when he was “extremely upset” after talking about his confused sexuality. The MP’s lawyer suggested that the complainant had given three “contradictory” bills to the police in 2008, 2019 and 2021. He accused the man, who has been trained as an actor, that he “literally made it” and that he was reliving a “drama that you are convinced of in your mind”. But the man insists he is telling the truth, telling the court: “I am not a liar.” The trial continues.
