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Daniel Keane

Serving Met officer charged with sexually assaulting three men and a woman

A serving Met officer has been charged with committing sexual offences against three men and a woman (Stock image) - (PA Archive)

A serving Met officer has been charged with committing sexual offences against three men and a woman.

Police Sergeant Lee Symons, of the West Area Command Unit, was suspended from duty in December 2022.

He was charged on December 23 last year with assault by penetration and five counts of sexual assault (by touching).

The offences are alleged to have taken place on dates between 2012 and 2018 against the same man.

PS Symons was also charged on the same date with five further counts of sexual assault by touching on dates between 2009 and 2021. Three of these counts relate to alleged offences against a man, while the remaining two counts relate to alleged offences against another man and a woman.

All of the offences are alleged to have taken place against people known to him.

He will appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Monday.

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