UK prosecutors authorise sexual offence charges against ex-police watchdog chief

British prosecutors have authorised sexual offences charges against Michael Lockwood, the former director general of the Independent Office for Police Conduct, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said on Friday.

The charges authorised against Lockwood, 64, are 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 CPS said.