Mr Khan's spokesperson previously said the circulated leaflets "peddle a barefaced lie".

In a statement last December, he described the allegations as "barefaced lies told by the investigator in order to achieve his satanic agenda".

For her self-pitying act, Ellis drew widespread disdain for her "crocodile tears" and "barefaced lies that could give a coyote gastric distress."

Dreijer is, by contrast, barefaced and bundled in a nondescript, oversize black hoodie when I reach them by video call in their studio in Stockholm.

The old photo showed a barefaced choir director; she now dons a pair of wide-frame glasses.