A Labour mayor helped hide her son's phone after he raped a 15-year-old girl by stalling a police raid on their home to allow time to conceal the device.
Naheed Ejaz, 61, blocked officers for over a minute and a half, giving 41-year-old Diwan Khan time to hide the phone believed to have stored a video of him sexually assaulting the teenager.
The former town mayor for Bracknell in Berkshire was convicted of perverting the course of justice, saying she let her “mother's love” cloud her judgement.
Khan's trial heard that he raped the young girl after she “blacked out” from the MDMA administered by Khan into vodka for her to drink.
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The teenager woke up in the backseat of his car, with no clothes on with no memory of events that led her there.
Khan later showed her the video that he filmed of him having sex with her, choking her and slapping her in the face, threatening the girl with messages saying he would show her mother the video if she reported the incident.
Khan, who appeared alongside Ejaz at official functions, even sent the teen the clip and told her that he would “slit her throat” if she told anyone.
He was convicted of raping the pupil, having already admitted perverting the course of justice in relation to hiding the device, which was never recovered.
Naheed Ejaz communicated with her son in Urdu to avoid police suspicion
| FACEBOOKBoth mother and son were found guilty following a six-day trial at Winchester Crown Court in Hampshire.
Prosecutor Ed Wylde said they had been speaking in Urdu when the police arrived on September 12, 2024, so they could discuss what to do with the phone unbeknownst to officers.
Mr Wylde said Ejaz and her son had not mentioned the word phone when they were speaking in Urdu because the word is the same and would have “given it away” to the police.
On police body-worn cameras, her son can be heard saying the “big bell” and Ejaz replied “keep silent, I know”.
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Previously during the trial, Mr Wylde said: “We can't be sure that Ms Ejaz had any clear idea of the trouble he was in at that time, but a mother's love for her son will stretch some way, and in this case it stretched into criminality.”
Defending Ejaz, Clare Evans said she had not opened the door to the police straight away because she had “gone to wake him up and get him to talk to the officers”.
Ejaz was Mayor of Bracknell Forest between 2023 and 2024, with Khan assisting her as Mayor's Consort on occasions.
She had recently finished her year as Mayor at the time of the offence in September 2024.
Both Ejaz and Khan will be sentenced at a later date.
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