‘He pushed me into a chair, opened my legs and tried to touch me...’
PARLIAMENT WORKER TELLS COURT DETAILS OF ALLEGED SEX ATTACKS
A YOUNG parliamentary worker delayed reporting a series of alleged sexual assaults by a Conservative MP’s aide to police because she “didn’t want to ruin his life”, a court has heard.
Callum Warren, 27, is accused of forcing himself on the girl – who was just 17 at the time – on three occasions between January and July 2017, including in the office of his boss, MP Chris Skidmore.
The first alleged attack in January allegedly took place in a ladies’ toilet on the Westminster Estate, while the second is alleged to have happened after the Tory Party’s 2017 election win in June.
Warren, of Bristol, is accused of trying to kiss the complainant as they walked through an underpass after a night celebrating the victory. On the third occasion in July 2017, Warren is alleged to have followed the teenager into Mr Skidmore’s office and forced her against the door to kiss her, before shoving her into a chair and pushing his hand between her legs.
The complainant described “crying hysterically” and trying to push him off her before running out of the office.
Warren faces two counts of sexual assault for the alleged attacks in January and June 2017, and one count of sexual assault and one of assault by penetration for the final alleged incident in July 2017.
A jury at Southwark Crown Court heard the complainant finally went to the police in September 2017 after confiding in a colleague who then took the matter to the Tory whips.
The whips recommended she report the alleged attacks.
Describing the final alleged incident in a taped interview, she said: “He pushed me against a wall and kept kissing me and turned me around and pushed me into a chair and opened my legs and tried to touch me.
“It was like he really wanted to have sex with me and he was going to have it – I just wanted him to get off me. Warren denies all charges against him. The trial continues.