I'm sure the people of Bridgend will be delighted to know this of their MP !!!

Tory MP wearing ‘leather mini-skirt’ and ‘high heels’ in road crash, court told

Bronwen Weatherby, PA
11 July 2022, 0:01 pm


A Conservative MP was wearing a “black leather mini-skirt” and “high heels” when he was involved in a late-night car crash, a court has heard.

Jamie Wallis, who has represented Bridgend since 2019, is on trial accused of failing to stop, failing to report a road traffic collision, driving without due care and attention and leaving a vehicle in a dangerous position.

Wallis denies the charges.

The charges relate to a collision on November 28 last year in which the Mercedes he is said to have been driving hit a lamppost and telegraph pole on Church Road in Llanblethian, South Wales.

Wallis claims he left the scene of the crash out of fear he would be “raped, killed or kidnapped” due to post-traumatic stress disorder which he developed after being raped in September.

Carina Hughes, prosecuting, said residents Adrian Watson and Natalie Webb were having a gathering when just after 1am they heard a “very loud bang, significantly louder than a domestic firework”.

Mr Webb said he went outside and saw amber flashing lights and that a Mercedes E-Class saloon had crashed into the lamppost.

Mr Watson said he looked inside the car and saw “a white male wearing a white long-sleeve top which was tight to the body, a black leather PVC mini-skirt, tights, dark shoes with a high heel and a pearl necklace”.


Bridgend MP Jamie Wallis is charged with failing to stop a vehicle, failing to report a road traffic collision, driving without due care and attention, and leaving a vehicle in a dangerous position, after a late-night car crash on November 28 2021 (Ben Birchall/PA)
Ms Webb in her statement described the male as wearing “black court shoes”.

When he asked Wallis if he was okay, Mr Watson said the male said: “I’m sorting it. I’m sorting it.”

Mr Watson said he was going to call the police and that Wallis began walking away from the scene.

He followed him and witnessed him make two phone calls, and during one he claimed he was being “accosted”.

He was then picked up by his father in a Land Rover Discovery.

Police Sergeant Gareth Handy said that when he attended Wallis’ family home address, which he described as a “mansion” and “absolutely colossal”, he forced entry into the property out of concern for the MP.

Mr Handy said Wallis was eventually found in one of the rooms of the house and when he got to the room he said: “I saw Jamie had make-up on his face.”
When police searched his flat at the property, they found a “blonde wig” on a table, the court heard.

Pc Louis Hall found Wallis in a bedroom within the house asleep and said: “He appeared to be wearing make-up. His eyelids were dark, his lips were red and his cheeks were bronzed, and he had red nail polish on his toes.”

Wallis was found naked in bed and was given a modesty blanket until clothing could be found.

The black leather skirt and pearl necklace were found next to the bed and were seized by police.

He was arrested at 7.21am.

Taking to the stand, Wallis said the day before the crash he was at home “wearing clothes I felt most comfortable in, which I often do when I’m alone, which are women’s clothes”.

Peter Rouch QC, defending, asked Wallis: “How long have you felt like this?”

Wallis replied: “Since I was a small child.”
Wallis said he would describe himself as transgender.

In March 2022, Wallis became the first MP in the UK to come out as transgender.

Wallis revealed in the same public statement that he had been raped.

Asked to describe the incident in September 2021, Wallis said: “In September, I was raped.”

Mr Rouch said: “You don’t need to go through the details. But you were subjected to penetrative rape yes?”

Wallis said: “Yes.”

Wallis continued: “It was profoundly distressing and traumatised. I became obsessed with what happened, I kept thinking about it, having nightmares and flashbacks.

“I would wake up in the middle of the night believing he was in my flat.

“I was hyper-anxious, and hyper-alert.”

Wallis said he was diagnosed with PTSD after he was raped.

He claims he left the scene of the crash because he had a “PTSD attack” and felt “vulnerable” and “as if I was going to be attacked again”.

In a prepared statement to police, the MP said he was in “pain and shock” after the collision.

“I noticed a group of people approaching and felt anxious,” he said.

“Due to my medical condition and time of the day and the weather conditions I felt I needed to get away.

“When I got home I took my medication and felt drowsy.

“I have been recently diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder.”

The trial is expected to last up to two days.

 

Well for me a persons sexuality ,race or gender isnt an important consideration for their ability to do a job .

Shame on the author of the article if he is implying that .This is the 21st Century .

We have a few guys on here comfortable wearing ladies clothes and underwear and who are we to judge?. We also have transgender people who are also happy as they progress through their journey which is their choice and again who are we to judge ? Its a free world and they are happy and that's what is important .

So this aspect for me should never have come into it .

For me the crime here is the moving a way from an accident and I have personally a victim of this type of act . For that and no other reason I hope he gets the book thrown at him .

 

What is the issue here?
The fact that the individual was ....
(a) 'Found guilty today of three driving offences, but cleared of one for which they were 'disqualified from driving for six months and fined £2,500 '
(b) Wearing a leather mini-skirt and high heels at the time?
or
(c) Following a 'PTSD attack' felt 'vulnerable' ?
Once again the Press printing with more text on an observational 'gossip' than the fact of the offence.
Lifestyle choices are individual and when not affecting others (attire had nothing to do with the offence committed) are irrelevant.
All this has done was bring his lifestyle choice to Public attention and potential vilification.
I could understand this for the Offence, but not for the choice.
in addition,
No one who has not experienced or knows of someone with PTSD, really understands

 

For someone who is himself a legislator - this is the issue:


accused of failing to stop, failing to report a road traffic collision, driving without due care and attention and leaving a vehicle in a dangerous position.

 

That issue is indeed relevant, and so choice (a) - and Not what the majority of the article referred to' (in regard to personal choice of attire and lifestyle)
Perhaps you should have cut that element out from the article before posting, because - in not doing so - it sends a wrong message

 

I'm not responsible for your mental attitude, if you choose to concentrate on unrelated matters in the article, that says more about you than your criticism of me for posting the article !!!

 

Thank goodness for that - because if it was anything like yours, I would indeed be mentally challenged
There is no need for your attitude of agrressive and arrogant self-infactuated and misguided opinion of both you and your views.
- My comment was about the article not you.
The only thing I made suggestion over your posting was a matter of consideration.
And I stand by my comments
(perhaps you should read my posts again and/or get someone to explain them to you)