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MP assualted by woman in constituency office
POLICE were called to Dominic Grieve MP's constituency office after a woman hit him in the face during a meeting on Friday.
The woman and her two children came to Mr Grieve's morning surgery at his office in Aylesbury End, Beaconsfield, to ask the MP for Beaconsfield to help him after she had built a large extension on her greenbelt home without planning permission and been discovered by South Bucks District Council.
The woman had been refused retrospective planning permission by the council, had failed to get this overturned at appeal, and is now facing the prospect of having to tear down the extension.
After the MP said he could not do help - because only a judicial review could reverse a decision by the planning inspectorate - the Asian woman became angry and scratched him in the face.
Mr Grieve told the Advertisier: "I told her there was nothing I could do. She was very hostile, I told her to leave, and she went into the waiting room and got on the phone to the police. I believe that she told them she'd been treated in a discriminatory or racist fashion.
"I went on with my surgery, because she had turned up late and I was quite behind.
"About fifteen minutes later she burst in, while I was with a constituent, shouting that the police had refused to come, that it was all a conspiracy.
"She was waving her arms in my face and she scratched me. I am not hurt, I had a scratch on my face the size of a shaving cut."
The woman refused to leave, and continued shouting, and Mr Grieve asked staff to telephone the police and have her taken out of the building.
He said: "It was impossible to continue with my surgery with her there."
Mr Grieve said nothing like this has ever happened to him before.
A spokesman for Thames Valley Police said confirmed that an assault took place but that no charges have been brought.
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