Ex-Tory MP Charlie Elphicke sexually assaulted a young parliamentary worker then "lectured" her "not to blab", a court heard.
Mr Elphicke is alleged to have told the woman he "had not been happy for years" in his marriage to Natalie Elphicke, moments after groping the woman in Westminster after inviting her to share some champagne with him in spring 2016.
The alleged victim, who was in her early 20s and cannot be identified for legal reasons, said she found Elphicke "physically repulsive" and kept telling him she was not interested in a sexual relationship with him, despite his protestations that she did.
Asked by prosecutor Eloise Marshall QC at Southwark Crown Court if she thought Elphicke believed she was, in fact, "up for it", the
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