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Labour mayor helped hide evidence when her son, 41, was arrested for raping 15-year-old girl, court told

A Labour mayor helped to hide evidence when her son was arrested on suspicion of raping a 15-year-old girl, a court has been told.

Naheed Ejaz, 61, allowed her 'mother's love for a son to stretch to criminality' by refusing to let police officers into her home when they came to arrest him, it was heard.

Ejaz, who had been Mayor of Bracknell Forest from 2023 to 2024, in Berkshire, is said to have delayed their entry for 'some minutes'.

She also spoke to her son, Diwan Khan, 41, in Urdu to 'assist' him in hiding his phone which had a video on it of the alleged sex attack, Winchester Crown Court heard.

Mr Khan - who was her Consort of the Mayor - is accused of raping a 15-year-old girl in June 2024 after she 'blacked out' from the MDMA that he put in vodka for her to drink.

Prosecutors allege the teenager woke up in the backseat of his car with no clothes on and she could not remember what had happened.

But Khan then showed her a video that he filmed of him having sex with her, choking and slapping her in the face.

Khan, who appeared alongside his mother for official Mayor functions, allegedly threatened to show her mother the video if she said anything and that she 'belonged' to him.
 

Migrant, 70, who told girl, 12, to 'cover her head' before sexually assaulting her on way home from school is spared jail

A 70-year-old migrant has been spared jail for sexually assaulting a young girl 'while encouraging her to cover her head'.

Chaudhry Zaman had forcibly held the 12-year-old girl's hand while she was walking home from school in Slough, Berkshire, then kissed her.

He told jurors he had been encouraging the girl to cover her head and telling her how she could do so.

The girl said her father now had to pick her up from school and she feels anxious during the school run.

Zaman, who was assisted by a Punjabi interpreter in court, was spared jail, in part due to his age.

The court heard the girl lost friends in her community after she came forward to make the allegation.

Judge Amjad Nawaz, describing the incident, told Zaman: 'CCTV shows you holding her hand. She says she did not want to, her hand was forcibly held.

'You were seen sitting on a bench with her and that is where she said that you kissed her on her lips.'
 
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