A Conservative MP who claims that he was falsely accused of sexually assaulting Nigel Farage’s ‘former mistress’ has spoken for the first time about how the incident cost him his marriage and family. Andrew Bridgen said that Annabelle Fuller, a Ukip spokeswoman, had ‘ruined his life’ after claiming she was groped on the balcony of his Westminster flat in June 2011. Police were told by an informant last month that Miss Fuller, 32, had concocted the claim after stealing his phone and later confessed she had ‘stitched him up’. Annabelle Fuller (left) who was named as a mistress of Nigel Farage (an allegation that they both deny) went to the Westminster flat of Tory MP Andrew Bridgen (with wife Jackie, right) and claimed that she was groped on his balcony. Mr Bridgen was arrested but the case was dropped within days and says the incident ruined his life and cost him his marriage
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Andrew Bridgen, MP met Annabelle Fuller in a pub across the road from his Westminster flat
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He says going to pub for a drink was 'biggest mistake in my life'
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Police arrested politician but case was dropped within days
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She ran barefoot from flat taking MP's phone and security pass with her
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Claims that she did not know Mr Bridgen was an MP when she met him
She added she never wanted the case against the MP to go ahead and that she had been left ‘suicidal’ after Mr @placeholder threatened to sue over the false accusations.