Conor McGinn, <\/a>who represented St Helens North from 2015 to 2024, will appear at Westminster Magistrates\u2019 Court on February 27 to face one count of sexual assault relating to an allegation from July 2022, the Crown Prosecution Service has said.<\/p>\nDeputy chief crown prosecutor Jessica Walker said: \u201cThe 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
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Conor McGinn (UK Parliament)<\/p>\n
\u201cOur 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
\u201cWe have worked closely with the Metropolitan Police as they have carried out their investigation into the allegation.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Crown Prosecution Service reminds everyone that criminal proceedings are active, and the defendant has the right to a fair trial.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is vital that there should be no reporting, commentary or sharing of information online which could in any way prejudice these proceedings.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 41-year-old, from Lambeth, London, 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 \u201cconfident that it is entirely unfounded\u201d and rejected \u201cany suggestion of wrongdoing\u201d.<\/p>\n
McGinn stepped down as an MP at the last election, having previously served as a shadow minister.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-393463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393463","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=393463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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