A former Conservative MP who give up after being accused of sexual misconduct and cocaine use has died on the age of 59, police have mentioned.
David Warburton, who represented the Somerset constituency of Somerton and Frome between 2015 and June 2023, was discovered lifeless in west London on Tuesday, Scotland Yard mentioned.
Officers had been referred to as to an deal with in Sands Finish in Fulham, the place they discovered a person in his 50s lifeless on the scene, the drive mentioned, including his dying is being handled as “unexpected but not suspicious”.
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The previous backbench MP had admitted taking the Class A drug however denied claims of sexual misconduct towards him and hit out at a parliamentary investigation into the allegations, which had taken 14 months by the point he stepped down.
He mentioned he had not been given a good listening to and was left with “no choice” however to impress “the upheaval of a by-election”, which was received by Liberal Democrat MP Sarah Dyke.
The seat was abolished as a part of boundary adjustments that got here into impact eventually summer time’s basic election.
A Metropolitan Police spokesperson mentioned on Monday: “Police were called by the London Ambulance Service at 10.47hrs on Tuesday, 26 August to an address at Chelsea Crescent, Sands End.
“A person in his 50s was discovered lifeless on the scene. His subsequent of kin have been knowledgeable.
“His death is being treated as unexpected but not suspicious.”
A London Ambulance Service spokesperson mentioned: “We were called on Tuesday 26 August at 10.14am to reports of an incident in Chelsea Crescent, Chelsea Harbour, SW10.
“We despatched (an) ambulance crew and a clinician on a bicycle.
“Sadly, a man was pronounced dead at the scene.”
Mr Warburton was first elected in 2015 with a majority of 20,268, or 53% of the vote.
He was re-elected in 2017 and 2019, with majorities of twenty-two,906 and 19,213, respectively.
