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Nigel Evans has told a jury that itwasridiculousthathewas •••;
--being dep jcted as “a cross be tween Alan Clark, Benny Hill and Oscar Wilde”. ! '
In the fourth week of his tri-js
,—al oh niriejsex allegations ih- eluding oheofrape, theRibble
' Valley MR and formerDepu-j , ty Speaker o f thejZohimons, : • was involved in often heated exchanges asprosecutor'Mr Mark-Hey wood QC cross- *
Aexaminedhimonhisevidencev to the jury.’
5 ^ % a n s (56);33f Pendleton, < Has pleaded riot guilty to one .
charge of rape, twri indecent - :: assaults,’five sexual assaults
. arid one attempted sexual as sault.;'-; •
He.told Preston Crown
..Court that the claims against
7: him had effectively ended any' 7 ambitionsofhim becoming '
Speaker of the House of Com mons.
. fourth week
, Referring to the first two : allegations that, while in pub lic,' he placed his hand in the ' trousers of men, Mr Heywood
askedhim:“THereis evidence ' in each of these two incidents
thatwhattookplacewaswith- - out.anyeye contact. Was this 1
■l£=V 4-J j v in its you using hands where words
.were riot
available.to you?” Evans replied: “No. It is
trying to make me out to be a cross between Alan Clark
(the late Tory politician), Ben ny Hill and Oscar Wilde; It’s ridiculous. The ariswer is no.”
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V, The openly gay MP said he
. had no recollection of the two . events alleged to have taken
place more than a decade ago; one in a bar in London’s Soho ■ in late 2002 or early 2003 arid r the other at the 2003 Con-- ,v;v servative Party conference in I "Blackpool.
|.‘ ■ The jury has heard that I j
. Evans was celibate for a long
IS,:. period until he began actively - T -- seeking’sexual relationships "•from 2000.
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K . . He denied he had made - a pass in the two alleged in-
|.' ^stances arid also when with' .' a young man who Was on hi s first visit to the Houses of 'Parliament in the suriimerof
:. 2009. Evans is alleged to have leaned forward to kiss the man behind a'curtain near .
7 the Strangers Bar. TheMPsaid:“Ithinkitgoes
from the bizarr e to the bun-, kum that I would take some
one close the curtains and then do something like that.”
. MrHeywood said: “You
: were beckoning hirii tocome : here, pull the curtain back
and you wanted to kiss him
for a sexual purpose?” Evans replied: “No. It’s ridiculous be yond belief.” -
Next.the MP was asked
about the allegations that he ^ “cupped” the genitals of an other man shortly after be ing introduced to him in the Strangers Bar. : , £ Evans said: “With several
. people watching? No.” Evans has also denied sexu-' allyassaultingaWestminster
worker in a darkened kitchen near his then Deputy Speak-
.er’s offices last March. Mr Heywood said: “You put
happen.”
your handsall over him. You pushed him against the wall,. you tried to kiss him. You then seized his hand and tried to put it on your erect penis.” . Evaris'said: “No, it did not
' Mr Heywood said: “The
reasori is quite simple -that by now you had reached the stage that you wanted to prac tise your sexuality with any- . oneyou could achieve it with.” continued on page 5
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led to road death of
biker (37) A motorcyclist was killed
atBoltori-by-Bowlandafter his Yamaha drifted across the centre line and clipped a pickup truck, an inquest
- at Clitheroe heard. Security guard Shaun
Taylor (37), from Adling- ton, near Chorley, died on
Decemberi7thofmultiple injuries when he struck
metal fence posts on the trailer being towed by a Nissan Navara.
' Elaine Block, Assistant
Coroner for Blackburn, Hyndburn and the Ribble Valley,'recorded a verdict of accidental death.
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' P ick u p d r iv e r Mr Michael Carroll said he was rounding an uphill bend when he saw the bike coining in the opposite di- • rection. It was on the cor rect side of the road, but
. the rider braked and the bike’srearwheelswungout and the bike hit his vehicle on the driver’s side. " Police accident inves
tigator PC Richard Rob- son saidth'at i f a rider v braked hard while going round a bend the machine would tend to sit up and go straight forward, and that is what seemed to have happened.
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