British police charge Kevin Spacey over alleged sex crimes

Police say the alleged sexual assaults befell between March 2005 and April 2013 in London and Gloucestershire.

Kevin Spacey
Spacey has stated he's assured any trial will show his innocence [File: Brian Snyder/Reuters]

British police say they've charged Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey over historic allegations of intercourse offences, with the actor due in court docket on Thursday.

Prosecutors final month authorised the expenses to be introduced towards Spacey, 62, on 4 counts of sexual assault towards three males, and an extra cost of inflicting an individual to have interaction in penetrative sexual exercise with out consent.

Police stated the alleged assaults had taken place between March 2005 and April 2013 – 4 within the capital, London and one in Gloucestershire. They concerned one man who's now in his 40s and two males now of their 30s.

“He is because of seem at Westminster Magistrates Court docket at 10am (09:00 GMT) on Thursday, 16 June,” London’s Metropolitan Police stated, confirming Spacey had been charged on the 5 counts authorised by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) following his arrest.

Spacey keen to defend himself

Spacey, who received Academy Awards for The Standard Suspects and American Magnificence within the Nineteen Nineties, has stated he's keen to defend himself within the UK and is assured any trial will show his innocence.

As soon as one in every of Hollywood’s greatest stars, Spacey has largely disappeared from public view since being accused of sexual misconduct 5 years in the past.

In November 2017, London’s Previous Vic theatre stated it had acquired 20 separate allegations of inappropriate conduct by Spacey from 20 males who got here into contact with him on the theatre, or in reference to it, between 1995 and 2013.

He was dropped from the TV present Home of Playing cards and faraway from the film All of the Cash within the World after the accusations of sexual misconduct got here to mild.

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