LONDON — Suspended Labour MP Mike Amesbury has been charged with assault after CCTV footage appeared to indicate him punching a person on the street.
Amesbury, 55, was summoned to seem at a magistrates court docket to face a cost of assault, Cheshire Police mentioned in an announcement launched Thursday.
Rosemary Ainslie, head of the Crown Prosecution Service’s particular crime division, mentioned: “Following a overview of the proof supplied by Cheshire Police, we’ve got licensed a cost of widespread assault in opposition to Mike Amesbury MP, 55.”
She added: “The Crown Prosecution Service reminds all involved that legal proceedings in opposition to the defendant are lively and that he has the best to a good trial.”
Video footage obtained by MailOnline appeared to indicate Amesbury punching a person repeatedly in an early-morning altercation within the city of Frodsham on Oct. 26.
Following the cost, Amesbury confirmed he would seem in court docket because of the “deeply regrettable” incident however couldn’t remark additional “given that is an ongoing case,” based on the BBC.
Amesbury is a member of parliament and had represented the governing Labour Get together, though he has been suspended from Labour because the incident.
Rival occasion Reform UK has known as on Amesbury to face down as an MP and set off a by-election in his Runcorn and Helsby seat. Reform got here second in Amesbury’s constituency within the July normal election, the place he nonetheless enjoys a majority of virtually 15,000.
