{
  "$type": "site.standard.document",
  "bskyPostRef": {
    "cid": "bafyreihucxtlcokrxtxb735upatbvdtdbko4fb3dhs6y6uk335paeyvkf4",
    "uri": "at://did:plc:oznbnvgr7dmvddiyvr7dih52/app.bsky.feed.post/3meoldcfxiu52"
  },
  "coverImage": {
    "$type": "blob",
    "ref": {
      "$link": "bafkreihuukzn6rmfkkjoruzmoc5u2vans2bpzvwan3ide5bkofpnaxvd5i"
    },
    "mimeType": "image/jpeg",
    "size": 79632
  },
  "path": "/news/labour-mayor-helped-rapist-son",
  "publishedAt": "2026-02-12T16:33:48.000Z",
  "site": "https://www.gbnews.com",
  "tags": [
    "Trial date set for Donald Trump's $10billion showdown with the BBC over editing scandal",
    "Boy, 15, who murdered Leo Ross named after being sentenced to 13 years in custody",
    "Keir Starmer 'committing unforgivable mistakes' as Lisa Nandy slams 'chaos' engulfing Labour",
    "The GB News Editorial Charter"
  ],
  "textContent": "\n\n\nA 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.\n\nNaheed 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.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nThe 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.\n\nKhan'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.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nTRENDING\n\nStories\n\nVideos\n\nYour Say\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nThe teenager woke up in the backseat of his car, with no clothes on with no memory of events that led her there.\n\nKhan 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.\n\nKhan, 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.\n\nHe was convicted of raping the pupil, having already admitted perverting the course of justice in relation to hiding the device, which was never recovered.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nBoth mother and son were found guilty following a six-day trial at Winchester Crown Court in Hampshire.\n\nProsecutor 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.\n\nMr 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.\n\nOn police body-worn cameras, her son can be heard saying the “big bell” and Ejaz replied “keep silent, I know”.\n\n### LATEST DEVELOPMENTS\n\n\n\n\n  * Trial date set for Donald Trump's $10billion showdown with the BBC over editing scandal\n  * Boy, 15, who murdered Leo Ross named after being sentenced to 13 years in custody\n  * Keir Starmer 'committing unforgivable mistakes' as Lisa Nandy slams 'chaos' engulfing Labour\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nPreviously 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.”\n\nDefending 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”.\n\nEjaz was Mayor of Bracknell Forest between 2023 and 2024, with Khan assisting her as Mayor's Consort on occasions.\n\nShe had recently finished her year as Mayor at the time of the offence in September 2024.\n\nBoth Ejaz and Khan will be sentenced at a later date.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n**Our Standards:The GB News Editorial Charter**",
  "title": "Labour mayor who helped hide son’s phone after he raped 15-year-old girl blamed 'mother's love'"
}