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| Bob Stewart: Conservative MP charged with racially aggravated abuse | Bob Stewart: Conservative MP charged with racially aggravated abuse |
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| Conservative MP Bob Stewart has been charged with racially abusing a man during an incident in central London last year. | Conservative MP Bob Stewart has been charged with racially abusing a man during an incident in central London last year. |
| Met police said the Beckenham MP faced one charge of using threatening or abusive words or behaviour, where the offence was racially aggravated. | Met police said the Beckenham MP faced one charge of using threatening or abusive words or behaviour, where the offence was racially aggravated. |
| He also faces an alternative charge of threatening behaviour likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress. | He also faces an alternative charge of threatening behaviour likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress. |
| He will appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on 5 July. | He will appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on 5 July. |
| The Metropolitan Police said it opened an investigation after receiving a complaint from a man alleging he had been verbally racially abused. | The Metropolitan Police said it opened an investigation after receiving a complaint from a man alleging he had been verbally racially abused. |
| The allegations relate to an incident outside an event hosted by the Bahraini embassy to London in a Foreign Office building last December. | |
| The force said the alternative charge related to the same incident, and would "allow the court discretion on the racial element". | The force said the alternative charge related to the same incident, and would "allow the court discretion on the racial element". |
| Mr Stewart, 73, is a former Army officer and has represented the south London constituency of Beckenham since 2010. | |
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