‘Rape’ victim went to journalists to ‘control the story’

A woman who claims she was raped by a senior Tory MP’s aide at Westminster approached reporters the next day ‘to ensure a sympathetic write-up’, a court heard. Samuel Armstrong, 24, allegedly made the woman feel ‘like a hostage’ as he pinned her down on a sofa in his boss’ office. The chief of staff to Conservative MP Craig Mackinlay pounced on the young Westminster worker after she fell asleep following a night drinking in the Houses of Parliament, it…