Conservative MP Mark Pritchard was arrested and freed in 2014 after being accused of rape. However, rumors of his arrest have surfaced again.
The Metropolitan Police announced that a 48-year-old man was arrested in central London on Tuesday, believed to be the Tory MP for The Wrekin in east Shropshire.
He was detained after voluntarily entering a police station and bailed until early January 2015, according to Scotland Yard, but no new arrest report has been seen as of yet.
Is Mark Pritchard Arrested Again After Rage Charges?
The arrest of Mark Pritchard, Member for The Wrekin, was mentioned in a letter from the Metropolitan Police to Speaker John Bercow in Parliamentary Hansard, although there are no new records of him being detained.
A 48-year-old male was arrested in central London, according to the Metropolitan Police.
Mr. Bercow received a letter from Metropolitan Police Officer Sandra Looby, who stated: He writes to advise you that on December 2 Mark Pritchard MP was arrested by Metropolitan Police Service officers at 6.14 pm at Holborn Police Station in London.
Mr. Pritchard was detained by police and then released on police bail at 10.16 p.m. that same evening. Following an allegation of rape in central London, a 48-year-old man voluntarily attended a north London police station on Tuesday, 2 December, where he was detained, according to a Met spokesman.
He has been bailed until early January 2015, pending further investigations, and has yet to be arrested.
Who Is Mark Pritchard? Wikipedia
Mark Andrew Pritchard, formerly known as Mark Mallon, is a British Conservative politician and consultant who was born on November 22, 1966. Since the 2005 general election, he has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for The Wrekin in Shropshire.
On November 22, 1966, Pritchard was born. He grew up and received his education in Herefordshire. For a Conservative MP, he comes from an unorthodox background, he said on BBC Radio 4. He was raised in an orphanage in Hereford for the first five years of his life and afterward in foster care in a municipal house.
He told his local newspaper that his early years in the orphanage were filled with affection and warmth and that he had no negative memories of his time there.
Pritchard was first elected to Harrow Council in London as a Conservative Party councilor. He was elected as the Conservative Party candidate for Pinner Westward in a by-election in January 1993, but lost his seat in the council elections in May 1994, ending in fifth place.
Are Mark Pritchard And His Wife Divorced?
Pritchard and his 15-year wife, Sonya, reportedly split last year. He’d hired her to be his office manager.
Pritchard, a former marketing communications director, established his own company before entering parliament, advising blue-chip companies.
When Pritchard confronted Bercow in 2010 during a political tempest, he yelled, You are not royalty, Mr. Speaker! after the latter instructed him to go to the side of a corridor.