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Met Police officer charged with child sex offences in Surrey

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The officer is serving with the Metropolitan Police

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A serving Metropolitan Police officer has been charged with sexual assaults on two children in Surrey.

Surrey Police said Jamie Howlett, 33, formerly of Horley, has been charged with six counts of sexual assault by touching of a child under 13.

The force said three of the charges related to one victim and three related to a second victim.

He has also been further charged with multiple offences against a third, adult victim.

These were five offences of rape, one charge of controlling and coercive behaviour, one charge of sexual assault by touching, one charge of sexual assault by penetration and one charge of assault causing actual bodily harm, Surrey Police said.

He will appear at Staines Magistrates Court on 9 August.

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