Pakistani-Origin Ex-UK Mayor 'Assisted' Rape-Accused Son In Urdu To Hide Sexual Assault Video

Last Updated:February 06, 2026, 16:42 IST

Naheed Ejaz, the former Mayor of Bracknell Forest in Berkshire, allegedly refused to let police enter her home when they came to arrest her son for raping a 15-year-old girl.

A former mayor of a British borough allegedly helped her rape-accused son to hide evidence of his alleged rape of a 15-year-old girl, a UK court has heard. Naheed Ejaz, who was born and educated in Pakistan, was the former mayor of Bracknell Forest in Berkshire.

According to a report by The Telegraph, Ejaz refused to let police officers enter her home when they came to arrest her son, Diwan Khan, 41, in September 2024 on the charges of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl.

The Winchester Crown Court heard that Ejaz stopped officers entering her home for “some minutes" and spoke to her son in Urdu to “assist" him in concealing a phone, which reportedly contained a video of the sexual assault.

Prosecutors alleged that Khan gave the teenage victim MDMA and vodka in June 2024 before raping her when she had “blacked out". When the girl woke up in the backseat of her car without any clothes on, Khan showed her a video of him having sex with her, choking her and slapping her face.

The report said Khan also told the girl that she “belonged" to him before threatening to show the video to her mother. She also stated that Khan had threatened to “slit her throat" if she told anyone about the attack.

The victim later told the court that she and a friend of hers had met Khan after he had said he would take them on a drive and then gave them a vodka bottle laced with drugs. He allegedly told the two girls that he was “horny" and that he wanted them to touch him, but they both said no, according to The Times.

Ex-Mayor Obstructed Police Officers

Naheed Ejaz, a member of the Labour Party and the mayor of Bracknell Forest from May 2023 to May 2024, was the borough’s “first Pakistani Muslim Mayor" and her son appeared alongside her at official events. She has been accused of delaying police officers and help her son hide evidence of the sexual assault.

“When the police came to arrest Khan, she delayed opening the door and helped him hide his mobile phone. That mobile phone was likely to have material that would be evidence in Mr Khan’s case," said prosecutor Ed Wylde.

Khan later gave a phone to the police, which did not have the video on it. “We say that she was aware that this was not the phone the police were looking for, assisting Mr Khan in the concealment of the mobile phone," Wylde told the court.

“We say they were speaking in Urdu in order that the police wouldn’t know what they were talking about. We say that she assisted her son. We have a pretty good idea that it is the phone with the video on it. We can’t be sure that Ms Ejaz had any clear idea of the trouble he was in at that time, but a mother’s love for her son will stretch some way, and in this case it stretched into criminality," he added.

Khan has denied charges of rape, telling the police that he had met the victim on a dating app and said he thought she was 24 years old, although she told the cops that she was 15. “She snuck out at night, she drank alcohol, she took drugs. She may have got things a little wrong. We say those factors are exactly why he chose her, because he knew she wouldn’t be believed," Wylde said.

Meanwhile, Ejaz has has been charged with perverting the course of justice, which she denied.

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