A young politician and transgender activist has withdrawn from the race to become deputy leader of the Green Party after it emerged that she had used her father as her election agent even though he faced charges of raping and torturing a 10-year-old girl.

Aimee Challenor, the party’s equality spokeswoman and a former parliamentary candidate, faced pressure to drop out of the leadership contest after her father, David, was sentenced to 22 years for the “depraved” crimes. Aimee lived with him in a small two-up, two-down house.

Challenor: jailed for 22 years for rape and torture of young girl SWNS

A jury at Warwick crown court last week convicted David Challenor of holding the child captive in the attic of the terraced house, where he tied her to a beam, whipped her and attached clips to her body