MP faces March trial

A Conservative MP accused of sexually assaulting a teenage boy 13 years ago will stand trial in March next year. Imran Ahmad Khan, 48, allegedly groped the 15 year-old in January 2008 at a house in Staffordshire. Mr Khan, who was elected as Conservative MP for Wakefield, West Yorkshire, in 2019, appeared at the Old Bailey today (thurs) via video-link. His barrister, Sallie-Bennett Jenkins, QC, the judge, Mrs Justice McGowan, and Tom Little, for the prosecution, also attended the brief…