House of Commons groper escapes with a fine

An odd-job man at the Houses of Parliament has been fined for groping a woman as she viewed work on the £3.5 billion restoration project. Gerald Conlon, 57, rubbed the woman’s private parts over her clothing on 22 December last year after luring her up onto scaffolding and telling her: ‘Look at the wood work there.’ Conlon had a security pass for the Palace of Westminster and was known to take members of staff to view the refurbishment work. After…