Tory MP faces jury trial for three sex assaults

A Tory MP accused of three charges of sexual assault today will face a jury trial. Charlie Elphicke, the MP for Dover, is said to have lunged at the women and groped them under their bra. He also ran his hand over one woman’s thigh when she was in his car, Westminster Magistrates were told. The first woman accuses him of a single attack in 2007, while a second complainant accuses him of two separate assaults in 27 April and…