Politician ‘slapped embassy worker’

The leader of the British wing of one of Bangladesh’s main political parties slapped an worker outside the country’s embassy in London, a court heard. Mohammed Malique, 60, who is the head of the British branch of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, but speaks no English, appeared at Westminster magistrates’ court accused of attacking Shamim Rena. The incident happened on 7 February this year, the same day demonstrators broke into the embassy and defaced an image of the Prime Minister in…