Schoolgirl, 15, was ‘hysterical’ after telling trainer she was ‘raped by Labour mayor’s son who helped cowl it up’, courtroom hears

A 15-year-old schoolgirl was left ‘hysterical’ after she told her teacher she was allegedly raped by a Labour mayor’s son who is now accused of trying to cover it up.

Diwan Khan, 41, is alleged to have raped the teenager while she was ‘blacked out’ after he plied her with ecstasy and vodka, and to have videoed the assault.

Khan’s mother, former Labour Mayor Naheed Ejaz, 61, is now accused of helping her son cover up evidence of the alleged rape by refusing to let police officers into her home to arrest him.

The young girl told her teacher of the alleged attack on her first day back at school after the summer holidays, when Khan is said to have raped her.

Her mother came to the school to pick her up and said ‘she was hysterical’ and ‘crying’ in a witness statement heard by jurors. 

Prosecutors allege the teenager woke up in the backseat of Khan’s car with no clothes on, and she could not remember what had happened, but Khan showed her a video that he filmed of him having sex with her, choking and slapping her in the face.

To keep her silence, Khan allegedly threatened over messages saying that he would show her mother the video if she said anything and that she ‘belonged’ to him.

When police came to arrest Khan on September 12, 2024, his mother, Ejaz – who had just finished a year as Mayor of Bracknell – allegedly stopped officers from entering her home.

Diwan Khan, 41, is accused of raping a 15-year-old school girl after plying her with drugs and vodka and his mother, former Labour Mayor Naheed Ejaz, 61, is accused of perverting the course of justice after allegedly trying to help her son cover the alleged attack

Former Labour mayor of Bracknell Forest, Naheed Ejaz, 61, reportedly held police at her door after they came to arrest Khan and allegedly spoke to him in Urdu to help him hide his phone

She is said to have held them at the door for ‘some minutes’ while she spoke to her son in Urdu to ‘assist’ him in hiding his phone, which is purported to have had a video of the alleged sex attack on it.

Prosecutor Ed Wylde previously said: ‘That mobile phone was likely to have material that would be evidence in Mr Khan’s case.’

Khan produced a phone to the police, but this was not the one with the video on it.

Mr Wylde said: ‘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.

‘We say they were speaking in Urdu so 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.’

Ejaz had just finished her first year as the Labour Mayor of Bracknell at the time of the alleged attack

The victim’s mother said her daughter was ‘hysterical and ‘crying’ when she came to pick her up from school after she told her teacher of the alleged sex attack

The mother and her son are appearing on trial together at Winchester Crown Court, Hampshire. Ejaz denies perverting the course of justice, and Khan denies rape.

The victim’s mother said her daughter had gone missing several times in the summer when she had not known what she was doing, but she had thought that she was with friends. 

Prosecutor Ed Wylde asked her mum how her daughter was when she arrived at the school after she had told her teacher about what had happened.

‘She was hysterical,’ her mum said. ‘She was crying.’

Mr Wylde asked the girl if it was a ‘difficult time in her life’ when she was sneaking out, and she admitted that it had been.

To stop her sneaking out, the victim’s mother had asked her daughter to ‘hand in’ her phone to her at night, put extra locks around the house, and put a Ring doorbell on the front door.

Mr Wylde said that the girl had not had her phone with her during the evening of the alleged rape, and she had snuck out through the kitchen window because the lock was broken.

Defending Khan, Nadia Chbat said that the girl had lied to her mum about being ‘kidnapped’ when she snuck out and went ‘missing’.

Ms Chbat said: ‘You were running away from home quite a bit at the time, weren’t you?’

The trial continues.