Pressure is expected to build on Prime Minister John Key to state why he lost confidence in Richard Worth, now a sexual complaint against the former minister has been dropped.
Police today confirmed the Korean woman who laid the complaint against Dr Worth had withdrawn it.
"At no time did police suggest to the complainant that she should withdraw her complaint," a Wellington police spokeswoman said.
"Police will need to assess all the information we have to bring the file to a state of finality."
Dr Worth's lawyer Paul Dacre said his client was happy with the outcome and now wanted time to reflect.
Dr Worth resigned as a minister on June 2 and quit 10 days later after the scandal involving the Korean woman and another incident involving a woman from the Labour Party who accused him of making inappropriate phone calls and texts.
At a press conference last month Mr Key made it clear he would not be revealing the reason he accepted Dr Worth's resignation. All he would say was that Dr Worth had lost his confidence.
Mr Key was not commenting today.
TV3 tonight reported further details of the Korean woman's allegation; that Dr Worth invited her to Wellington for a function, they later drank wine in his office after which he escorted her to a hotel room he had booked and had the key for. The woman became tired, when Dr Worth allegedly would not leave, she went to bed and awoke to find him next to her.
Dr Worth consistently maintained his innocence and previously said he had no choice but to resign from Parliament because of the "avalanche of rumour and innuendo" surrounding him.
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