A Chelsea restaurant boss has been charged with brandishing a fake gun in the King's Road.

Battersea man Richard Gladwin, 31, who co-owns Rabbit with his two brothers, was allegedly carrying the fake firearm on Friday, August 28.

Mr Gladwin, of Albert Bridge Road, was arrested on August 28 with the restaurant's manager Frederick Lawrence Samengo-Turner, 27, whose registered address is in Oxfordshire.

Both men were charged on Saturday with carrying an imitation firearm with intent to cause fear of violence.

They were bailed, to appear at Hammersmith Magistrates' Court on Tuesday, October 27.

A third man, 27, who had been arrested in connection with the investigation, was released with no further action.