London MP Bob Stewart charged with ‘racially-aggravated abuse’
T
ory MP Bob Stewart has been charged with two public order offences after allegedly telling an activist to “go back to Bahrain”.
The MP for Beckenham, in south London, is due in court docket subsequent month.
Police on Monday charged the 73-year-old with utilizing “racially aggravated threatening or abusive words or behaviour or disorderly behaviour” and utilizing “threatening or abusive words or behaviour likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress”.
Mr Stewart won’t be suspended from the Conservative Party whereas he fights the fees towards him, the social gathering confirmed on Monday afternoon.
The allegation pertains to a confrontation with human rights campaigner Sayed Ahmed Alwadaei outdoors the Foreign Office’s Lancaster House constructing in Belgravia on Wednesday, December 14, 2022.
The Director of the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy challenged Mr Stewart over donations from the Bahraini authorities.
He complained to police after Mr Stewart allegedly informed him to “get stuffed” and to “go back to Bahrain”.
Mr Alwadaei, 36, says he was tortured after participating in anti-government protests within the nation in 2011.
Mr Stewart, a former NATO navy commander who served in Bosnia, was elected in 2010 and serves on various parliamentary committees, together with the Intelligence and Security Committee.
He is due at Westminster Magistrates’ court docket on July 5.