Court date for officer accused of child sex offences
A Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) officer has been charged with a series of child sex offences.
May 26, 2016
By Nick Hudson
A Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) officer has been charged with a series of child sex offences.
Police Constable Alistair Leiper, 36, based in the Westminster borough of London, was charged with six offences on Tuesday (May 24).
The charges included one count of attempting to cause a child to engage in penetrative activity; one count of making indecent images of children; and four counts of attempting to cause a child to watch a sexual act.
He is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates` Court on June 16. The officer has been suspended from duty since his arrest on August 27 last year.
PC Leiper is the second MPS officer to be charged with child sex offences in as many months.
In March, a separate case saw child abuse detective Chris Maitland, 40, charged with two counts of sexually touching a girl under the age of 13.
He also faced 12 counts of taking or making an indecent image of a child.
Earlier this month Detective Constable Maitland was jailed for five years and four months.