Reform UK MP J. McMurdock Was Jailed In 2006..

A Reform MP is facing accusations of misleading the public after it emerged that he was jailed 18 years ago for repeatedly kicking his girlfriend.

James McMurdock, a former investment banker, was elected this year as MP for South Basildon & East Thurrock, after beating the Conservative candidate Stephen Metcalfe by just 98 votes.

McMurdock was convicted of assaulting his then girlfriend in 2006 while drunk outside a nightclub and spent 21 days in a young offenders’ institution after admitting to the attack.

He had not publicly disclosed the conviction before he was elected as an MP and downplayed the attack as a “teenage indiscretion” when details first emerged in the weeks after the election.

The Times applied to the courts for information from the official record of his conviction, which was released on Wednesday.