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anneasquith //' it was 11 years ago ', that's ok then .//
I take it you are being ironic, right?
Please see my post at 10:45. If a serious crime was committed, as stated in the Guardian & isn't proven. Why wait 11 years before this anonymous person reports it ?
The problem for Peter Bone and many others is that s... sticks, right or wrong.
See https:/
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Parliament's Independent Expert Panel (IEP) found Mr Bone broke Parliament's sexual misconduct rules by indecently exposing himself to the staffer during an overseas trip.
It also upheld five allegations of bullying, including "instructing, or physically forcing, the complainant to put his hands in his lap when Mr Bone was unhappy with him or his work".
It also found he "verbally belittled, ridiculed, abused and humiliated" him, and "repeatedly physically struck and threw things" at him, including hitting him with his hand or an object such as a pencil or a rolled-up document.
It also upheld an allegation Mr Bone "repeatedly pressurised" the staffer to give him a massage in the office. It found this was bullying, but not sexual misconduct.
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Mr Bone denied the accusations throughout and appealed against its findings, arguing the investigation had been flawed.
However, his appeal was dismissed by a sub-panel, which said the investigation had been carried out correctly.
According to the report, the complainant had kept a detailed log of Mr Bone's behaviour at the time, and had submitted "compelling, nuanced and plausible" evidence.
It also found his account of events was backed up by witnesses at work, and family members with whom he had spoken about his experiences.
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The investigation was triggered following a complaint made in October 2021 with a prior complaint to the Conservative Party - made in 2017 - unresolved.
According to its report, the IEP found that at this stage, the Tory party investigation had "apparently not progressed very far".
The panel formally began a full investigation in August 2022, with the staffer withdrawing the complaint to the party to stop the two inquiries running in parallel.
> What does that mean?
It means what it says.
Also, the complainant said "It should not take five years for a complaint to be processed" - so, six years of bullying and sexual misconduct, after which time enough was enough and he complained, and another five years until we're at where we are now. There's your 11 years ...
> "He hit me on the hand with a pencil"
That's one end of the abuse - and it is abuse, I don't think an MP should be hitting people, even with only a pencil - and at the other end of the scale is the stuff that you're avoiding mentioning, e.g. exposing himself. The point is that not one thing caused the complaint - it was everything, over years, that did it. Allegedly.
