Ex-chief of the police watchdog is charged with six counts of indecent assault and three offences of rape against a teenage girl
The former head of Britain’s police watchdog was today charged with child sex offences including the alleged rape of a girl under the age of 16 in the 1980s.
Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) director general Michael Lockwood stepped down from the £190k-a-year role in December after the allegations emerged.
Today the Crown Prosecution Service authorised nine charges for alleged sex offences. Lockwood will appear at Hull Magistrates’ Court on June 28.
He is accused of three counts of rape between October 1985 and March 1986 and six counts of indecent assault in the same period. The alleged victim was under the age of 16 at the time.
Former IOPC boss Michel Lockwood was today charged with sex offences
Rosemary Ainslie, Head of the Special Crime Division at the CPS, said: ‘After carefully considering all of the evidence provided to us by Humberside Police, we have authorised charges against Michael Lockwood, 64, for nine offences under the Sexual Offences Act 1956.
‘Mr Lockwood has been charged with six counts of indecent assault and three offences of rape against a girl under the age of 16, alleged to have been committed during the 1980s.
‘The Crown Prosecution Service reminds all concerned that criminal proceedings against Mr Lockwood are active and that he has the right to a fair trial.’
