Lord Nazir Ahmed, 61, is accused of attacks on two children under the age of 13 in Rotherham during the 1970s
A peer has been charged with two counts of attempted rape and one count of indecent assault.
, the Times reports.Lord Nazir Ahmed will stand trial in two weeks He is one of three men facing linked criminal charges following an investigation by South Yorkshire Police.While Mohammed Tariq, 63, is charged with two counts of indecent assault.Married father-of-three Lord Ahmed joined Labour at 18 and became Rotherham’s first Asian councillor and youngest magistrate.He was appointed to the House of Lords on the recommendation of then-Prime Minister Tony Blair, in 1998.
But in 2013, comments he made about Jewish people on television in Pakistan sparked a backlash, and he resigned from Labour.
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