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<\/p>\nA former Labour MP has been charged with one count of sexual assault relating to an allegation from July 2022.<\/p>\n
Conor McGinn has been charged with one count of sexual assault in connection to an allegation of sexual assault made by a woman three-and-a-half years ago.<\/p>\n
Mr McGinn is the former Labour MP for St Helens North, having represented the seat between 2015 and 2024.<\/p>\n
The 41-year-old from Lambeth, London, is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates\u2019 Court on Friday, February 27.<\/p>\n
Deputy Chief Crown Prosecutor Jessica Walker said: “The Crown Prosecution Service has decided to charge Conor McGinn with one count of sexual assault following a police investigation into an alleged sexual assault in July 2022.<\/p>\n
“Our prosecutors have worked to establish that there is sufficient evidence to bring this charge to court and that it is in the public interest to do so. <\/p>\n
“We have worked closely with the Metropolitan Police as they have carried out their investigation into the allegation.<\/p>\n
“The Crown Prosecution Service reminds everyone that criminal proceedings are active, and the defendant has the right to a fair trial.<\/p>\n
Conor McGinn, former MP for St Helens North, has been charged (pictured in 2016)<\/p>\n
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“It is vital that there should be no reporting, commentary or sharing of information online which could in any way prejudice these proceedings.”<\/p>\n
Mr McGinn was suspended from the Labour Party in 2022 after a complaint was made against him.<\/p>\n
At the time he told the Guardian that he had not been told details of the complaint but was “confident that it is entirely unfounded” and rejected “any suggestion of wrongdoing.”<\/p>\n
He remained as the MP for the constituency as an Independent MP until he stood down at the 2024 General Election, when the seat was won by Labour’s David Baines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former Labour MP has been charged with one count of sexual assault relating to an allegation from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[35884,924,59,57,58,2053,388,50,65089,229,56,44208,54,55],"class_list":["post-393402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-across-the-uk","tag-crime","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-labour-party","tag-london","tag-news","tag-north-west-of-england","tag-politics","tag-uk","tag-uk-politics","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}