Ex-Reform MP Rupert Lowe will not face criminal charges

Rupert Lowe, the MP for Great Yarmouth, volition not look transgression charges successful narration to an allegation of threats, the Crown Prosecution Service has said.

Lowe was elected arsenic a Reform MP successful past year's wide predetermination but was suspended by the enactment successful March, amid claims of threats towards the party's chairman.

Malcolm McHaffie, caput of the CPS, said it made the determination not to property charges "following a thorough and elaborate reappraisal of the evidence".

"Having considered a fig of witnesser statements, we person concluded that determination is insufficient grounds to supply a realistic imaginable of conviction," helium said.

In a connection connected X, Lowe accused Reform of carrying retired a "brutal smear campaign".

"For the misdeed of asking morganatic questions astir the party's direction, policies and leadership, I was vilified and targeted," helium said.

He besides said the Metropolitan Police were dropping their probe into "false allegations".

Although the CPS connection does not sanction Lowe, the lawsuit relates to an incidental astatine the Palace of Westminster successful December 2024.

Mr McHaffie said: "The Crown Prosecution Service's relation is not to determine whether a idiosyncratic is blameworthy of a transgression offence, but to marque fair, independent, and nonsubjective assessments astir whether it is due to contiguous charges for a transgression tribunal to consider.

"Based connected the cautious information of this evidence, we person decided that our ineligible trial for a transgression prosecution has not been met."

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