Ex Tory MP 'touched young woman in bar'

Official reprimand after he steps down

- SOPHIE HUSKISSON

A FORMER Tory MP who stood down just weeks before the election has been reprimanded for "brazen and drunken" sexual misconduct.

Aaron Bell, 44, has been found to have abused his position of power by touching a young woman inappropriately and without her consent at a bar in Parliament last December, Parliament's standards watchdog said.

The Tory, who at the time was an Assistant Whip, Government stepped down as a candidate for re-election during the campaign for "personal and family reasons".