London, April 14, 2022 (AFP) – British Conservative MP Imran Ahmad Khan announced his resignation on Thursday after being found guilty of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy on Monday.

Conservative Party MP, 48-year-old Khan, said he would appeal the verdict as he denied the facts to which he was convicted. He justifies his resignation, however, as the court process must have been lengthy.

In his statement on Twitter, he said, “I came to the conclusion that it is intolerable for my administrators to continue without a deputy who will carry his voice to the Parliament for years,” and stated that he “resigned”. leaves political life”.

Following the decision, a spokesperson for Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s party, to which he belongs, announced that Khan was expelled “with immediate effect”.

During a party in January 2008, Khan gave a gin to a teenager. According to the indictment, he later took her to another floor and laid her on her bed and asked her to look at the pornography before sexually assaulting her.

The resignation of this MP from Wakefield, in the north of England, necessitates a new election in the left’s historic stronghold, which is expected to be difficult for Johnson’s party, which has been greatly weakened after his conviction for breaking the rules against Covid.