A court has heard how a Labour councillor shouted at her son in Urdu to hide a phone which allegedly had a video of a sex attack on it while she delayed officers.
Naheed Ejaz allegedly refused to let police officers into her home when they came to arrest her son, Diwan Khan for raping a 15-year-old girl.
Winchester Crown Court heard how the former mayor of Bracknell Forest delayed the officers’ entry for “some minutes” and spoke to her son in Urdu to assist him in hiding his phone, which allegedly had a video of the sex attack on it.
The court was told that police arrived at her house in Bracknell in the early hours of September 12, 2024.
Ejaz and Khan are on trial together at Winchester crown court. Ejaz denies perverting the course of justice and Khan denies rape.
He has admitted perverting the course of justice by hiding a mobile phone from the police.
Mr Wylde told the court it was Ejaz who answered the door to the police.
He said: “When the police came to arrest Mr Khan, she delayed opening the door and helped him hide his mobile phone.
“That mobile phone was likely to have material that would be evidence in Mr Khan’s case.”
Ejaz is appearing at the court
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Wylde said Khan gave a phone to the police but it was not the one with the video, adding: “We say they were speaking in Urdu … so the police wouldn’t know what they were talking about.”
The court heard how the alleged victim had arranged to meet her friend, who said she knew a man who could take them for a drive.
They then drank from a bottle of Smirnoff vodka, to which Khan was alleged to have added powdered ecstasy, also known as MDMA.
Khan allegedly told the two girls that he was “horny” and that he wanted them to touch him, however they both said no.
He then dropped the friend home then drove the 15-year-old girl to his house, the court was told.
The trial continues at Winchester Crown Court
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She told police she had drunk about half a litre of the vodka by this point, then “blacked out”.
The court heard how she could not remember what happened next until she woke up naked, reports The Times.
When interviewed by the police, Khan denied picking the girl up in his car and he denied raping her.
He said he had met her on a dating app called Plenty of Fish and that he thought she was 24 years old.
Mr Wylde told the court that the girl’s dating profile stated that she was 19.
He added: “At the time she was 15. She was quite troubled, quite rebellious.
“She snuck out at night, she drank alcohol, she took drugs. She may have got things a little wrong.
“We say those factors are exactly why he chose her because he knew she wouldn’t be believed.”
The trial continues.