A Battersea man will appear at Kingston Crown Court charged with a series of sexual assaults against a teenage girl.

Richard Patel, 52, from Parkham Street, is charged with raping a girl between April 2013 and March 2014.

He is also charged with three other sexual offences against a 14-year-old said to have been committed between February 2013 and May 2013.

Four further sexual offences are said to have occurred between April 2013 and March 2014.

Patel is also charged with supplying cannabis to a girl.

He is due to appear at Kingston Crown Court on May 13.