Ex Tory MP ‘asked sex attack victim about bondage – then tried to buy her silence’

A former Tory MP jumped on his sex attack victim after asking her about whips, leather and bondage, then tried to buy her silence, a court heard. Charlie Elphicke, 49, allegedly forced an ‘open mouthed smush’ on the woman who wept as she told jurors how he chased her around his townhouse in Belgravia. The woman, in her thirties, told Southwark Crown Court she remained stayed silent about the 2007 incident to ‘protect his family.’ But after a 2017 news…