Peer accused of sex attack says he only touches people to ‘get a sense of them’

A blind Tory peer accused of grabbing a masseuse’ bottom said he only asks to touch people with consent ‘to get a sense’ of them, a court heard. Lord Christopher Holmes of Richmond MBE, 48, allegedly grabbed the woman’s buttocks at a five star hotel’s spa on 7 March last year. Holmes, who is visually impaired and a life peer in the House of Lords, is Britain’s most successful Paralympic swimmer, with a total of 9 golds, 5 silvers and…