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sex charges Ribble Valley MP Nigel Evans is due to appear at Preston Crown Court tomorrow (Friday) for a. pre-trial plea and case management hearing. . The former Deputy


Speaker of the House of Commons is accused of two counts of indecent assault, five o f sexual assault and one of rape against seven male alleged victims. A provisional trial date


o f March 10th has been set for the 55-year-old MP, who stood’down as Dep­ uty Speaker after being charged in September. The indecent assaults


are alleged to have been committed between Jan­ uary 1st, 2002, and Janu­ ary 1st, 2004, the sexual


. assaults between January 1st, 2009, and April 1st, 20i3,andthe rape between March 29th and April 1st, 2013. Mr Evans was a Con­


servative MP but resigned the party whip when he became a Deputy Speaker,.


. as it is a politically neutral role. He has not sought to reclaintheToiywhipinthe Commons,butinsteadrep- resents his constituency as an independent. :


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