12 February 2026
A Labour mayor helped hide her son’s phone after he raped a 15-year-old girl by blocking police officers from entering their home and giving him instructions in Urdu.
Naheed Ejaz, 61, refused to let officers in for over a minute and a half, giving 41-year-old Diwan Khan time to conceal the device, which is believed to have had a video of him sexually assaulting the teenager on it.
The former town mayor for Bracknell in Berkshire was convicted of perverting the course of justice, saying she let her ‘mother’s love’ cloud her judgement.
Khan’s trial heard that he raped the young girl after she ‘blacked out’ from the MDMA that he gave her by putting it in vodka for her to drink.
The teenager woke up in the backseat of his car with no clothes on and she could not remember what had happened.
However, Khan showed her the video that he filmed of him having sex with her, choking her and slapping her in the face.
He then threatened the girl with messages saying he would show her mother the video if she said anything about what happened.
Khan, who appeared alongside Ejaz at official functions, even sent the teen the clip and told her that he would ‘slit her throat’ if she told anyone.
He was convicted of raping the 15 year old girl. He had already admitted perverting the course of justice in relation to hiding his phone.
Ejaz and Khan were found guilty following a six day trial at Winchester Crown Court in Hampshire.
Prosecutor Ed Wylde said that Ejaz had let her ‘mother’s love’ cloud her judgement when she prevented police from entering the property she shared with her son in Bracknell.
He said she had helped her son ‘conceal’ his phone, which is said to have had the video of the sex attack on it. It was never recovered.
He said they had been speaking in Urdu when the police arrived on September 12, 2024, so that they could discuss what to do with the phone.
Mr Wylde said Ejaz and her son had not mentioned the word phone when they were speaking in Urdu because the word is the same and would have ‘given it away’ to the police.
On police body-worn cameras, her son can be heard saying the ‘big bell’, and Ejaz replied, ‘keep silent, I know’.
In his closing speech, Mr Wylde said: ‘[Mr Khan] says the other big bell, meaning the phone and she says “keep silent, I know”. A conspiracy of silence not to give the police the phone.
‘Just give them that one to get them out of the house. She wants the matter dealt with quickly so that they don’t find it.’
He said that she had either hidden the phone on her person or she had left it in her bedroom alongside her screaming grandson.
Mr Wylde said: ‘He is her boy, she was worried about the consequences for him and for her. She was a public figure after all.
‘She is his mum, she loves him. The son still lives at home even though he is approaching 40.
‘A mother’s love is a very powerful emotion. And lying is a very powerful emotion if you can call it an emotion.’
Previously during the trial, Mr Wylde said: ‘We can’t be sure that Ms Ejaz had any clear idea of the trouble he was in at that time, but a mother’s love for her son will stretch some way, and in this case it stretched into criminality.’
Defending Ejaz, Clare Evans said that she had not opened the door to the police straight away because she had gone to wake him up and get him to talk to the officers.
Ms Evans claimed that she had ‘co-operated’ with the police and was trying to pay ‘lip service’ to her ‘agitated and controlling’ son.
She said: ‘She is paying him lip service. When she is being told by Mr Khan you will not say anything to them and she says no.
‘She goes back to talking to the police. She is trying to shut him up. She was trying to find his phone and get this circus out of her house.’
Ms Evans said that although her son was ordering her not to help the police, she ‘ignored’ him and persisted in searching for the phone.
Khan previously pleaded guilty to perverting the course of justice when they came to arrest him, saying he acted like an ‘a******’.
Judge Rufus Taylor said that the police seized 26 sim cards in the house and Ejaz had 12 different contacts for Khan but none of them matched the iPhone 14 phone number.
Defending Khan, Nadia Chbat said that the 15-year-old had lied about her age to Khan, saying she was 22 and had been in a relationship with him.
Ejaz was Mayor of Bracknell Forest for between 2023 and 20224, with Khan assisting her as Mayor’s Consort on occasions.
She had recently finished her year as Mayor at the time of the offence in September 2024.
She had raised daughters and two sons and had set up her own taxi business that she mostly used to help transport people with special needs.
Khan had joined the business as a chauffeur during Covid, dealing with many of the bookings.
Both Ejaz and Khan will be sentenced at a later date.