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Soldier charged with assaulting teenager
A soldier has been charged with sexually assaulting a teenager near to a railway station. The 18-year-old woman was allegedly attacked in New Park Avenue, Bexhill, East Sussex, as she walked away from the town's railway station at about 3.40am on August 19, a Sussex Police spokesman said.
The spokesman said: "As a result of intensive police inquiries since Sunday, the arrest was made on Saturday August 25."
Trevor Anthony Clark, 20, a serving soldier stationed at Catterick Garrison, North Yorkshire, who has been staying in Buckhurst Road, Bexhill, has been charged with sexual assault and causing actual bodily harm. He will appear at Hastings Magistrates' Court tomorrow.
Man being questioned over fatal stabbings
Police are investigating the deaths of two women in a double stabbing. Officers were alerted to the incident at Wakefield in Yorkshire at the weekend after a 19-year-old woman in Dover raised the alarm with her local police force in Kent. ITV Calendar have been following the story.