MP charged over sex assaults at London's Groucho Club

An MP has been charged with 2 counts of intersexual battle that allegedly took spot astatine London's Groucho Club, the Metropolitan Police person said.

Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP Patrick Spencer is accused of 2 attacks connected 2 abstracted women successful August 2023 - earlier helium was elected.

The 37-year-old, who became a Conservative MP astatine the 2024 wide election, volition look astatine Westminster Magistrates' Court connected 16 June.

Mr Spencer's lawyers accidental helium "categorically denies the charges" against him and "will support the allegations robustly successful court".

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said it had authorised charges relating to "two alleged incidents involving 2 abstracted women" astatine the backstage members' club.

"On 13 March 2025, a antheral attended a voluntary interrogation astatine a London constabulary station," the Met Police said.

"Patrick Spencer has since been charged with 2 counts of intersexual battle and volition look astatine Westminster Magistrates' Court connected Monday, 16 June."

Frank Ferguson, caput of the peculiar transgression and antagonistic coercion part astatine the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), said: "Following a reappraisal of the grounds provided by the Metropolitan Police Service, we person authorised 2 counts of intersexual battle against Patrick Spencer MP.

"The charges travel 2 alleged incidents involving 2 abstracted women astatine the Groucho Club successful cardinal London successful August 2023."

The Groucho is simply a backstage members' nine successful Soho's Dean Street. It opened successful 1985 and became a well-known haunt of celebrities and media figures.

On his website, Spencer says helium lives successful Suffolk with his family.

He was not an MP astatine the clip of the alleged attacks.

A Conservative Party spokesperson said Spencer had been suspended from the enactment pursuing the quality of the charges. He is present listed arsenic an autarkic connected the UK Parliament website.

The spokesperson said successful a connection that the Conservative Party "believes successful integrity and precocious standards".

"We person taken contiguous action," helium added.

"Patrick Spencer MP has been suspended from the Conservative Party, and the whip withdrawn, with contiguous effect.

"The Conservative Party cannot remark further connected an ongoing ineligible case."

It is understood that Spencer was asked not to be the parliamentary property by the Tories' main whip portion constabulary carried retired their investigation.

MPs look being barred from attending Parliament if they are arrested for superior intersexual oregon convulsive offences aft changes past year.

A hazard appraisal sheet appointed by Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle considers cases.

It tin determine connected a scope of measures including exclusion from the parliamentary property and a prohibition connected Commons-funded travel, though its conclusions are kept confidential.

Spencer was elected arsenic the MP for Central Suffolk and North Ipswich successful July 2024 with a bulk of 4,290.

Before helium entered the Commons, helium worked successful concern for the backstage equity steadfast IPGL, a institution chaired by his father, erstwhile Conservative Party treasurer Lord Michael Spencer.

He aboriginal took a occupation astatine the Centre for Social Justice deliberation vessel and past became a elder advisor astatine the Department for Education.

Spencer made his maiden code successful July during a statement connected the MPs' codification of behaviour relating to 2nd jobs.

He said past that the "most important happening to the radical crossed my constituency" was "restoring a consciousness of motivation probity and nationalist spiritedness to our governmental system".