A judge suspended over an affair with a South Norwood cleaner is being paid £2,000 a week for doing nothing - and has received two pay rises.

Judge Mohammed Ilyas Khan, 61, has been collecting his salary since he was ordered to stand down last September pending an investigation into his role in an alleged love triangle with a woman immigration judge and his Brazilian lover, Roselane Driza.

The Judicial Communcations Office confirmed yesterday that Judge Khan, an immigration judge, saw his salary of £105,972 go up in November to £108,220 and on April 1 to £109,784, in line with a judicial pay review affecting all judges.

Ms Driza, 38, who had been employed by both judges, was jailed for trying to blackmail the woman judge - referred to as Judge J - and stealing two sex videos from Judge Khan.

But Ms Driza's conviction was overturned this year and she now faces a re-trial.

An official inquiry was launched after the first case to see if the two judges had brought the profession into disrepute.

But, eight months on, the investigation set up by the Office for Judicial Complaints is still in its early stages.

Conservative constitutional affairs spokesman Oliver Heald said: "It seems extraordinary that it has taken so long. The Lord Chancellor needs to explain why is has taken this amount of time at taxpayers' expense."

Judge J has taken early retirement on health grounds and is receiving a pension.