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| Ex-minister Brooks Newmark felt ‘mentally raped’ by newspaper sex sting | Ex-minister Brooks Newmark felt ‘mentally raped’ by newspaper sex sting |
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| Rowena Mason, political correspondent | |
| Thu 13 Nov 2014 15.05 GMT | |
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| Conservative MP Brooks Newmark has claimed he felt “mentally raped” after he was caught sending naked pictures of himself to a reporter posing as a young Tory activist in a newspaper sting. | Conservative MP Brooks Newmark has claimed he felt “mentally raped” after he was caught sending naked pictures of himself to a reporter posing as a young Tory activist in a newspaper sting. |
| The Braintree politician and married father of four used the controversial expression to describe his “emotional trauma” after the story ran in the Sunday Mirror and he was forced to resign as a government minister. A week later, further pictures and message exchanges were published between him and a woman with whom he had been having an affair. | The Braintree politician and married father of four used the controversial expression to describe his “emotional trauma” after the story ran in the Sunday Mirror and he was forced to resign as a government minister. A week later, further pictures and message exchanges were published between him and a woman with whom he had been having an affair. |
| He told the Colchester Gazette: “It’s as though somebody drilled a hole in your head and mentally raped you, that’s what it felt like: somebody raping your mind because things you thought were private were no longer private, that is the emotional trauma one feels. | He told the Colchester Gazette: “It’s as though somebody drilled a hole in your head and mentally raped you, that’s what it felt like: somebody raping your mind because things you thought were private were no longer private, that is the emotional trauma one feels. |
| “For what I did I blame nobody but myself. But how I felt as a result of it was like my mind had been violated and it is beyond humiliating because you never imagine this would happen to you.’’ | “For what I did I blame nobody but myself. But how I felt as a result of it was like my mind had been violated and it is beyond humiliating because you never imagine this would happen to you.’’ |
| The MP, who is standing down at the next election, also revealed to the newspaper that he had been diagnosed with depression after seeking residential psychiatric help following the scandal. | The MP, who is standing down at the next election, also revealed to the newspaper that he had been diagnosed with depression after seeking residential psychiatric help following the scandal. |
| He also said the condition may be a relapse of anorexia, which he had as a teenager. | He also said the condition may be a relapse of anorexia, which he had as a teenager. |
| “On the surface, I have achieved everything I wanted to achieve,” he said. “All those achievements for some reason didn’t make me feel happy inside … Everyone sets their own standard for themselves and I feel I have let myself down really badly and I feel that very deeply. | “On the surface, I have achieved everything I wanted to achieve,” he said. “All those achievements for some reason didn’t make me feel happy inside … Everyone sets their own standard for themselves and I feel I have let myself down really badly and I feel that very deeply. |
| “Lots of people in public life just plough on, it doesn’t matter; they keep their jobs, they keep working and in time they either work things out or they don’t work things out.’’ | “Lots of people in public life just plough on, it doesn’t matter; they keep their jobs, they keep working and in time they either work things out or they don’t work things out.’’ |
| The Independent Press Standards Organisation (Ipso) is investigating the Sunday Mirror for the sex sting carried out against Newmark even though the complaint against the newspaper has been dropped. | The Independent Press Standards Organisation (Ipso) is investigating the Sunday Mirror for the sex sting carried out against Newmark even though the complaint against the newspaper has been dropped. |
| It follows new rules by the industry after the Leveson inquiry into the failures of newspaper publishers that followed the phone-hacking scandal. | It follows new rules by the industry after the Leveson inquiry into the failures of newspaper publishers that followed the phone-hacking scandal. |
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