Imran Ahmad Khan

For other people with similar names, see Imran Khan (disambiguation).
This British surname is barrelled, being made up of multiple names. It should be written as Ahmad Khan, not Khan.

Imran Ahmad Khan
Official portrait, 2020
Member of Parliament
for Wakefield
In office
12 December 2019 – 3 May 2022
Preceded byMary Creagh
Succeeded bySimon Lightwood
Personal details
Born
Imran Nasir Ahmad Khan

(1973-09-06) 6 September 1973 (age 51)
Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England
Political partyIndependent
Other political
affiliations
RelativesKarim Ahmad Khan (brother)
EducationSilcoates School
Alma mater
Signature
Criminal information
Criminal statusConvicted/found guilty
Conviction(s)Sexual assault[1][2]
Criminal penalty18 months in prison[3]

Imran Nasir Ahmad Khan (born 6 September 1973)[4][5] is a British former politician and convicted sex offender. He served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Wakefield from the 2019 general election until 2022.[6] Elected as a Conservative, Ahmad Khan had the party whip withdrawn in June 2021; he was subsequently expelled from the party following his criminal conviction for child sexual assault in 2022.[7][2]

Ahmad Khan says he was born in Wakefield in West Yorkshire, though his birth entry shows he was born in Dewsbury.[8] He studied at the Pushkin Institute in Moscow and King's College London. He worked for the United Nations as special assistant for political affairs in Mogadishu and as a senior consultant for M&C Saatchi. A supporter of Brexit, he was elected in the 2019 general election and attributed his victory to voters' support for leaving the European Union in the 2016 referendum.

In 2021, he was charged under the Sexual Offences Act 2003 with having sexually assaulted a 15-year-old boy in 2008. Ahmad Khan denied the accusation "in the strongest terms".[9] On 11 April 2022, following a two week-long trial in the Southwark Crown Court, he was convicted of sexually assaulting a minor.[1] He resigned as an MP on 3 May and was sentenced to 18 months in prison on 23 May,[10] serving nine of these before being released in February 2023.

  1. ^ a b "Imran Ahmad Khan: MP guilty of sex assault on 15-year-old boy". BBC News. 11 April 2022. Archived from the original on 11 April 2022. Retrieved 11 April 2022.
  2. ^ a b "MP convicted of sexual offence against boy". Crown Prosecution Service. 11 April 2022.
  3. ^ Hall, Rachel (23 May 2022). "Imran Ahmad Khan sentenced to 18 months over sexual assault of boy, 15". The Guardian. Retrieved 23 May 2022.
  4. ^ Brunskill, Ian (19 March 2020). The Times guide to the House of Commons 2019 : the definitive record of Britain's historic 2019 General Election. HarperCollins Publishers Limited. p. 370. ISBN 978-0-00-839258-1. OCLC 1129682574. Archived from the original on 9 November 2021. Retrieved 23 June 2021.
  5. ^ "Imran Ahmad Khan for Wakefield in the UK Parliament elections". Who Can I Vote For? by Democracy Club. Archived from the original on 14 December 2019. Retrieved 14 December 2019.
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference lbcresign was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  7. ^ "Imran Ahmad Khan: MP resigns after being found guilty of sexually assaulting 15-year-old boy". Sky News. Archived from the original on 6 October 2022. Retrieved 14 April 2022.
  8. ^ "FreeBMD Entry Info". Archived from the original on 7 January 2024. Retrieved 7 January 2024.
  9. ^ "Wakefield MP Imran Ahmad Khan charged with sexually assaulting boy". BBC News. 18 June 2021. Archived from the original on 18 June 2021. Retrieved 18 June 2021.
  10. ^ "Imran Ahmad Khan: Ex-MP jailed for sex assault on teenage boy". BBC News. BBC. 23 May 2022. Archived from the original on 24 June 2022. Retrieved 24 June 2022.