Charlie Elphicke's cliffside home has bought for a whopping £700,000 revenue after the disgraced former MP misplaced his job and claimed Common Credit score within the wake of his jail sentence.
Elphicke, 50, lived on the property in Dover, Kent, with his estranged spouse Natalie, 51, earlier than he was given a two-year jail sentence for sexual assault - half of which he served behind bars.
The home in St Margaret's Bay, which boasts an workplace, veranda, cellar, and gorgeous views over the bay, was purchased for £825,000 in August 2012, however the property bought for £1,525,000 in March 2021.
Uxbridge Magistrates Court docket had heard that Elphicke obtained £51,000 from the sale of his marital house, however a lot of the cash went in the direction of 'authorized charges and hire'.
Elphicke's barrister Ian Winter QC had advised the court docket his shopper had 'a good bit of debt', and that his estranged spouse, Natalie Elphicke, now the MP for Dover, loaned him £100,000 to pay for authorized payments.
Elphicke, who was launched from jail in September after serving half of his sentence, had been introduced earlier than the court docket for allegedly failing to pay £35,000 in prosecution prices following his sentence for sexually assaulting two ladies.
Elphicke and Natalie - who had been married for 25 years however are divorcing - lived on the property collectively earlier than his profession was ruined amid revelations of his intercourse assault disgrace, and Natalie took over from him as MP for Dover.
There are plans for the property to be knocked down by the brand new house owners.
Within the wake of Elphicke's case, the Commons Requirements Committee discovered 5 Conservatives, together with his spouse Natalie, had breached the code of conduct over an 'egregious' try to affect his authorized proceedings.
Consequently Mrs Elphicke, Sir Roger Gale and Theresa Villiers had been suspended from the Home of Commons for a day.
They, together with Bob Stewart and Adam Holloway, had written to senior members of the judiciary elevating issues {that a} extra junior choose was contemplating publishing character references offered for Mr Elphicke.
Elphicke turned a Authorities whip throughout David Cameron's premiership in 2015 however returned to the backbenches when Theresa Could got here to energy the next yr.
He had the occasion whip suspended in 2017 when allegations of sexual assault first emerged however it was controversially reinstated a yr later for a vital confidence vote in then-prime minister Mrs Could.
The whip was withdrawn once more the next summer time when the Crown Prosecution Service introduced its choice to cost Elphicke.
The previous MP, who was first elected in 2010, stated in December final yr that he paid six months hire upfront for a flat in Fulham, south-west London, that was valued on-line at almost £475,000.
At one other listening to final month Elphicke stated he had claimed for Common Credit score and stated: 'I've no job, I've no profession, I'm long-term unemployed.
'I'm working with the job centre and my probation officer to discover a new profession.
'I'm separated from my spouse who has filed for divorce.'
Elphicke - who served half his custodial sentence behind bars - was a former Authorities whip.
He was was discovered responsible of three counts of sexual assault in opposition to two ladies.
The previous MP pressured himself on each victims earlier than kissing and groping them.
Throughout one assault in 2007, he chased his sufferer and stated 'I am a naughty Tory'.
