Voters can trust Tories like they do GPs after Harold Shipman, says Wakefield candidate

Conservative candidate in Yorkshire byelection, Nadeem Ahmed, says Imran Ahmad Khan was one bad apple'

The Conservative candidate in the Wakefield byelection has said voters should still vote for the party despite Imran Ahmad Khan's conviction for sexually assaulting a boy as we still trust GPs" after Harold Shipman killed 250 people.

Nadeem Ahmed was asked why people should vote Conservative after Khan was sentenced in May to 18 months in jail for molesting a 15-year-old boy. Khan, 48, had plied him with gin at a party in 2008. He was expelled from the party and later resigned from the Commons, triggering the byelection in the West Yorkshire constituency on 23 June.