A Croydon man has been charged with sexually abusing children when he was a teenager in the 1970s.

Kenneth Brand, 53, of Westfield Road, is accused of indecently assaulting two victims, including a boy aged four at the time of the earliest alleged offences.

Mr Brand will appear at Staines Magistrates' Court on Wednesday charged with two counts of buggery, five counts of indecent assault of a boy aged under 14, gross indecency with a boy aged under 14, and indecent assault of a girl aged under 16.

The offences are all said to have taken place between 1972 and 1992.