Disgraced former MP Charlie Elphicke has been pictured for the primary time following his launch from jail.
The ex-MP for Dover, who was jailed for sexual assault, was launched in September having served half of his two-year sentence for 3 sexual assaults on two ladies.
He has at this time been pictured exterior his Fulham residence for the primary time since his launch.
Elphicke, 50, had final month spoken of his monetary woes throughout a courtroom look over unpaid prices.
He had been ordered to pay a £35,000 sum inside a yr in direction of the price of the prosecution.
Elphicke, who’s on licence till subsequent yr, supplied to repay at a fee of £1 a month. The courtroom rejected his provide.
Disgraced former MP Charlie Elphicke, who was jailed for sexual assault, has been pictured for the primary time following his launch from jail
The ex-MP for Dover, who was jailed for sexual assault, was launched in September having served half of his two-year sentence for 3 sexual assaults on two ladies
Uxbridge Magistrates’ Crown Courtroom had heard that the previous Authorities whip had acquired £51,000 from the sale of his marital residence, however a lot of the cash has been used ‘in authorized charges and to pay lease’.
He stated he had paid six months’ lease up entrance for a one-bedroom flat, valued on-line at practically £475,000, in Fulham, south-west London, including: ‘That’s the reason I’ve very restricted money to fulfill my residing bills.’
‘I’ve made a declare for Common Credit score that’s at present being processed,’ Elphicke stated. ‘They’ll come again to me on December 12 to ensure I pays the lease in an ongoing method.’
‘I’ve no job, I’ve no profession, I’m long-term unemployed,’ stated Elphicke. ‘I’m working with the job centre and my probation officer to discover a new profession.
‘I’ve made a declare for Common Credit score. I’m separated from my spouse who has filed for divorce. I’ve needed to discover a new place to dwell.’
Elphicke’s barrister Ian Winter QC had instructed the courtroom his consumer had ‘a good bit of debt’, and that his estranged spouse, Natalie Elphicke, now the MP for Dover, loaned him £100,000 to pay for authorized payments.
Former Conservative MP Charlie Elphicke, with MP for Dover Natalie Elphicke, arriving at Southwark Crown Courtroom in London in July 2020
He has at this time been pictured exterior his Fulham residence for the primary time since his launch
Magistrates agreed to adjourn the case to December 17, whereas Elphicke is ready for his advantages declare to be assessed, with a fee order anticipated to be made on the subsequent listening to.
Chair of the bench Andrew Gell stated: ‘It doesn’t appear clear as what might be doable over the subsequent 12 months so I believe we wait till Common Credit score has been performed, adjourning the matter till that has been accomplished and have a look at the matter once more.’
Elphicke had in March misplaced a Courtroom of Attraction problem in opposition to his jail sentence after his attorneys argued it was too lengthy and will have been suspended.
The sentencing choose had described Elphicke as a ‘sexual predator’ who used his ‘success and respectability as a canopy’.
Throughout his trial, jurors heard how he had requested one in all his victims about bondage and intercourse, then kissed her and groped her breast earlier than chasing her round his residence, chanting: ‘I am a naughty Tory.’
Elphicke had develop into a Authorities whip throughout David Cameron’s premiership in 2015 however went again to the backbenches when Theresa Could got here to energy the next yr.
He had the social gathering whip suspended in 2017 when allegations of sexual assault first emerged however it was controversially reinstated a yr later for a vital confidence vote in then-prime minister Mrs Could.
The whip was withdrawn once more the next summer time when the Crown Prosecution Service introduced its choice to cost Elphicke.