Imran Ahmad Khan, 48, who was elected Wakefield MP to West Yorkshire in 2019, was at a birthday party at a home in Staffordshire in January 2008 at the time of the alleged incidents, a jury said. Prosecution officer Sean Larkin QC said an 18-year-old man was at the party wearing a uniform when Mr Khan asked him if he was wearing the clothes like a “true Scot”. “Khan then lifted the kilt with both hands and threw it at him so he thought he would grab it,” Larkin said. The teenager pushed his uniform and said that, although he had experience from others trying to lift it, the incident “felt very different”, the court heard.
The complainant was upset, the court heard
Mr Khan, who had been invited to the party as a friend of a friend, had been informed by the family that he could stay the night, sleeping in a spare bed in the same room as his 18-year-old and younger brother. Jurors said the 15-year-old was in bed in the top bunk of his pajamas and could hear “Khan’s breathing was very heavy” as he was sexually assaulted. Mr Larkin said: “When [the complainant] went to bed, Mr. Kahn stood next to this upper bunk, reached out his hand and rested his feet, touching or touching his groin. We suggest in every way that it was a sexual assault. He pushed him away, but he continued, and when he did not stop, he fled. “ The court heard that the complainant, who could not be identified because he was the alleged victim of a sexual offense, was “upset” when he reached his parents. Police were called to the home and the boy reported the incident, telling police Kahn asked him to “show me porn” and told him he was a “good boy”, the jury was told. The 15-year-old did not want to do it again and the allegation did not continue at that time, but the complainant returned to the police when he found out that Mr. Khan was standing as an MP, the prosecutor said. Mr Khan, who is on unconditional bail, denies any allegations of sexual assault. The trial continues.
