A police family liaison officer appointed to the family of Jessica Chapman during the Soham murder inquiry has been charged with indecently assaulting a teenage girl, the force investigating him said yesterday.
West Midlands Police said Detective Constable Brian Stevens, 41, will face two counts of indecently assaulting the 13-year-old when he appears in court again next month.
The father-of-two, who serves with Cambridgeshire Police, has also been accused of three counts of making indecent images of children on top of the three similar alleged offences he was charged with last month.
His colleague, Constable Antony Goodridge, 34, who was an exhibits officer during the investigation into the deaths of Jessica and Holly Wells, both ten, has been charged with a further 12 counts of making indecent images of children, having already been accused of four similar offences.
The two officers were first arrested last month as part of a worldwide investigation into alleged Internet pornography.
West Midlands Police conducted the investigation into Stevens and Goodridge at the request of colleagues in Cambridgeshire and supervised by the Police Complaints Authority
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