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William Wragg: Ex-Tory MP feels ‘monumental guilt’ over Westminster honeytrap scandal

By Editorial Board Published November 16, 2024 3 Min Read
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William Wragg: Ex-Tory MP feels ‘monumental guilt’ over Westminster honeytrap scandal

A former Conservative MP has stated he felt “enormous guilt” when he came upon he was the sufferer of a Westminster honeytrap scandal.

William Wragg resigned from the parliamentary occasion in April after he admitted giving out fellow politicians’ cellphone numbers to the suspected perpetrator of the sexting rip-off.

He stated he felt threatened and pressured by the “catfish” after exchanging specific pictures with them.

Mr Wragg divulged the numbers to what he thought was an actual individual on a relationship app, amid fears that the intimate photographs of himself could be leaked.

The 36-year-old instructed the BBC: “My stomach just dropped.

“Once I came upon among the issues that had been occurring, I simply felt monumental guilt, monumental regret.”

After the former Hazel Grove MP handed over the personal information, the catfish told Mr Wragg to vouch for their identity with their next potential victims, with the catfish telling their fresh targets they were a former researcher for Mr Wragg.

Mr Wragg agreed and this is what he feels “essentially the most remorse for” as it was “deceitful”.

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Panic assaults

After he was allegedly blackmailed, Mr Wragg began having panic assaults, with situations of yelling, crying, and swearing surprising his sleeping flatmates.

Police are investigating the scandal with a minimum of 12 males with hyperlinks to Westminster believed to have obtained unsolicited messages from the aliases “Charlie” and “Abi”.

The faux accounts had been allegedly a part of the rip-off to get MPs and different folks in politics to ship specific photographs and different non-public or delicate data.

In contrast to others who had been approached by the catfish accounts, Mr Wragg approached “Charlie” himself after recognizing the profile on homosexual relationship app Grindr.

And he thought the account was an actual individual earlier than exchanging specific pictures with the catfish.

Suicidal ideas

When the scandal broke, the humiliation and disgrace grew to become an excessive amount of for Mr Wragg.

He recounted photographers and the media camped outdoors his dad and mom’ home, which is the place he went to as he started to have suicidal ideas.

Shortly after receiving medical consideration, he returned to Westminster to resign as Conservative whip and from his posts on two parliamentary committees.

He had already introduced he wouldn’t run within the subsequent common election.

Man detained

In June, a member of the Labour Get together aged in his mid-20s was apprehended in Islington, north London, on suspicion of harassment and offences below the On-line Security Act.

He has since been launched on bail.

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