'I have witnessed it first-hand. At the same time as Elphicke pushed this issue up the domestic UK news agenda, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, raised it at the G20 meeting in Mexico City. It mystifies her, still. [34], In August 2017 Elphicke organised a letter to be sent by 40 MPs to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond, calling for the return of duty-free sales once the UK leaves the EU. 'He turned up with her one weekend and I never liked him, I just had a feeling. Like any mother, Mrs Pears was swept up in the excitement of organising the big day. They should not have any preferential treatment just because they are MPs. In July 2019, the whip was withdrawn again after he was charged by the Crown Prosecution Service with three counts of sexual assault against two women. as his two young children slept upstairs and his oblivious wife attended a work event. [93], A campaign to present Elphicke as a victim was joined by several individuals, including the parliamentary whips who rescinded his suspension in December 2018, and his wife, Natalie (see below). [29][30], On 17 March 2022, Elphicke attended a protest against the mass sacking of 800 staff members by P&O ferries in Dover. Charlie Elphicke groped woman and chased after her, court told [18] He was a finalist both in the usability and engagement categories. His month-long trial last summer devastatingly unpicked his disturbing behaviour, luridly detailing near identical assaults one of which saw him attempting to spank his terrified victim as he chased her around the kitchen of his family home, shouting 'I'm a naughty Tory!' It's something which disgusts Mrs Pears, a former councillor: 'The public have a right to know who these MPs are. He would say inappropriate things and talk about porn, then just say he was 'naughty',' Mrs Pears said. [31][32], She supported Penny Mordaunt in the JulySeptember 2022 Conservative Party leadership election. 'After all of those years, when I looked after the children and gave up my own career, Charles stopped me seeing my grandchildren,' she says, visibly moved. 'I wanted to use their en-suite and there he was, with another woman, the house full of people and he didn't care,' Mr Pears says. 'I was hoping she would go off on her own, particularly when she said at the court that was it, she was divorcing him. Then he pounced on her, kissed and groped her, before chasing her around the house chanting 'I'm a naughty Tory' and slapping her bottom in a scene described as being straight out of a Benny Hill sketch. . I turned and walked out and Natalie she is Catholic, too followed. Inderdeep Bains for the Daily Mail Ministers in clash as farmers fear Britain will be flooded with cheap Mexican and Canadian meat Britain's Special Forces are banned from TikTok and other apps amid fears their accounts could be Mamma Mia! But few will have been driven to the kind of explosive fury that she has for hers. [82], After The Sunday Times published its report that Elphicke was under police investigation, he sued in order to shut the story down, using libel and privacy laws. [11] It involved canvassing the views of over 400 organisations up and down the country. His election saw the defeat of the Labour leader of Lambeth Council, Stephen Whaley. 'I was absolutely terrified of him . The schism between her and her grandchildren perhaps cuts the deepest while her daughter and son-in-law pursued their careers, Mrs Pears happily cared for the children. Disgraced former Conservative MP Charlie Elphicke has been jailed for two years after being convicted of three sexual assaults on two younger women.

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