US presidential candidate, Joe Biden on Friday categorically denied sexually assaulting a former staffer, saying the incident she claims occurred in 1993 “never happened”

“They aren’t true. This never happened,” Biden said of the accusations made by Tara Reade, a former staffer in his US Senate office.

Biden, who after a month of silence spoke up on the accusations with his statement, said Reade’s then-supervisor and former senior staffers in his office “have said, unequivocally, that she never came to them and complained or raised issues.”