MP blasts police actions

Senior Victorian MP Theo Theophanous says police have denied him justice in his fight against a rape charge.

The former Cabinet minister appeared in court yesterday to face a charge of raping a woman at Parliament House in 1998. Outside court, he accused police of denying him the right to put his side of the story.

"There was no open-minded approach in my circumstance and indeed it cannot be the case that it is open-minded when the police are not even prepared to grant the basic right to an interview so that my side of the case can be put," he said with his wife Rita standing by his side.