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| Nigel Evans MP: Sex charges trial starts for ex-deputy speaker | Nigel Evans MP: Sex charges trial starts for ex-deputy speaker |
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| The jury has been sworn in for the trial of former Commons deputy speaker Nigel Evans who is accused of nine sex offences against seven men. | The jury has been sworn in for the trial of former Commons deputy speaker Nigel Evans who is accused of nine sex offences against seven men. |
| The MP for Ribble Valley in Lancashire denies one count of rape, two of indecent assault and six of sexual assault between 2002 and 2013. | |
| Mr Evans, 56, resigned as Commons deputy speaker after he was charged in September. | Mr Evans, 56, resigned as Commons deputy speaker after he was charged in September. |
| The trial at Preston Crown Court is scheduled to last about four weeks. | The trial at Preston Crown Court is scheduled to last about four weeks. |
| The indecent assaults are alleged to have been committed between 1 January 2002 and 1 January 2004. | The indecent assaults are alleged to have been committed between 1 January 2002 and 1 January 2004. |
| The sexual assaults are alleged to have taken place between 1 January 2009 and 1 April last year, and the rape between 29 March and 1 April last year. | The sexual assaults are alleged to have taken place between 1 January 2009 and 1 April last year, and the rape between 29 March and 1 April last year. |
| Mr Evans, who was born in Swansea and lives in Pendleton, Lancashire, was a Conservative MP before becoming deputy speaker, a politically neutral role, but has not returned to the Tories in the Commons and is representing his constituents as an independent. | |
| He was one of three deputy speakers elected in a secret ballot of MPs in 2010. |