Ben Bamford, now 18, said he “needed to get as much money as I could” from high-ranking HM Revenue and Customs official Paul Jefferies, 52. Bamford told how Jefferies, who reportedly advised ex-chancellor George Osborne’s Treasury team, picked him up in his Audi TT and took him back to his cottage in Mayfield, East Sussex. He had given me some in the past, so I knew he would give me some if I met with him.”Before seeing Jefferies, Bamford took valium and smoked cannabis. Jefferies invited Bamford upstairs to his bedroom where he “got on top of me”, he told Lewes crown court. Bamford then said he asked Jefferies to stop, but that he carried on having sex with him until Bamford told him he needed the toilet.

Source: The Guardian November 17, 2016 00:36 UTC