Crispin Blunt, a Tory MP, has described the child sex abuse conviction of Imran Ahmad Khan as a "serious miscarriage of justice".

Crispin Blunt, the MP for Reigate, has argued that Imran Ahmad Khan did not get a fair trail.Last month Khan, was found guilty of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy.Khan was removed from the Conservative Party after a jury delivered a guilty verdict at Southwark Crown Court. However, he has yet to resign from his position as a MP and has said that he will appeal his conviction.

In April, Mr Blunt commented (in a now-deleted statement) that the case against Khan had "relied on lazy tropes about LGBT+ people that we might have thought we had put behind us decades ago."He would go on to add that he was "appalled and distraught" by the verdict and stated that the decision to convict Khan was "an international scandal, with dreadful wider implications for millions of LGBT+ Muslims around the world."

However, Mr Blunt would later retract these statements and said: "I do not condone any form of abuse and I strongly believe in the independence and integrity of the justice system."

Now, months on, Mr Blunt has doubled back on his retraction and is seemingly sticking to his original statement.Mr Blunt said: "I didn't know Imran.- I got to know him in the first few weeks of 2019 and 2020 and thoroughly enjoyed his company and could well see why he'd be a terrific parliamentarian with an enormous amount to contribute."and so this issue, then, arising for me... his conviction. And I don't want to... I saw what happened [at the trial]. I remain totally convinced."Blunt has resigned as a chairman of an all-party parliamentary group on LGBT+ issues due to protests from MP's about his remarks.The Conservative Party have made a statement, saying that: Mr Blunt's views are wholly unacceptable."