Controversial public figure Laurence Fox charged with sexual offence over ‘upskirting’ photo of TV presenter
By phoebe ann brooks
Laurence Fox, 46, has been charged with a sexual offence after allegedly sharing a photograph of television presenter Narinder Kaur without her consent over social media.
Fox is said to have shared an ‘upskirting’ photograph of Kaur, 52, on social media platform X (formerly Twitter) in April 2024.
Kaur described the image as “unimaginably mortifying” on her own social media platforms.
After an 11-month investigation, police charged Fox under Section 66A of the Sexual Offences Act 2003, which defines "cyber flashing" as the intentional sharing of a sexual image without consent with the aim of causing alarm, distress, humiliation, or for sexual gratification.
Metropolitan Police said: “Laurence Fox, 46, will appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on April 24 charged with an offence contrary to Section 66A of the Sexual Offences Act 2003. The charge relates to an image that was posted on a social media platform in April, 2024.”
Offenders can face up to two years in jail and be placed on the sex offender register.
In the immediate aftermath of the original post, people were quick to criticise the controversial figure. Fox posted to social media that he “would like to apologise” to Ms Kaur but added “it’s not my fault” that the upskirting image existed, as it had been taken 15 years earlier.
Fox began a social media hiatus after the backlash which came to an end just yesterday (March 25) as he responded to the charges in a video posted to X (formerly Twitter) with the caption:
“Well it looks like I’m back from my Twatter holiday!
This is yet another deeply concerning example of the two-tier British “justice” system in all its Soviet glory.
I will deal with this untrue, ridiculous, vexatious and malicious nonsense just like last time they tried it on.
How much more time, effort and tax payer money are the @metpoliceuk going to spend ignoring actual crimes in their efforts to silence ordinary British people?
Fight! Fight! Fight!”
In the video Fox remarked having to “cut his social media holiday short” after hearing the charge which he said is “for some unbelievable, ridiculous, and ludicrous thing”.
He adds that he is being “attacked” by the left, including those he described as “our good friends in two-tier Britain, anti-white-hating British, and anti-Christain-hating British people.”
He claimed that the “establishment are going to come after me again” adding that they were “welcome” to do so.
Fox then used the remaining minute of his video to tirade against his shock at “how the system, if you’re a British person, with the wrong political views are fair game… we are losing this country extremely quickly.”
He added: “I am happy to fight these people, but I’d really love it if other people started standing up and fighting too, because it's lonely out there.”
Fox claimed the law was being “used against me by malevolent bad actors, vexatious and malicious. And I will fight them to my dying breath, I promise you that.”