‘Sex attack’ victim called sister as MP hammered on the door

A former Tory MP’s alleged sex attack victim called her sister from his home to tearfully tell how he asked her about leather and lace and spanked her bottom, a court heard. Charlie Elphicke, 49, sat biting his nails at the back of Southwark Crown Court as he listened to the sister tell the jury how distressed her sibling was. The alleged victim, now in her thirties, had gone to the politician’s London townhouse and fled after he groped her,…