Serving Met police officer charged with 11 counts of sexual offences

The charges relate to three men and a woman and are alleged to have taken place between 2009 and 2021

Author: Kat WrightPublished 24th Jan 2025
Last updated 24th Jan 2025

A serving Metropolitan Police officer has been charged with sexual offences against three men and a woman.

Police Sergeant Lee Symons, 47, was charged on December 23 with assault by penetration and five counts of sexual assault by touching.

The offences are alleged to have taken place on dates between 2012 and 2018 against the same man.

Symons, who is attached to the West Area Command Unit, was also charged with five further counts of sexual assault by touching on dates between 2009 and 2021.

Three of these counts relate to alleged offences against a man, and the remaining two counts relate to alleged offences against another man and a woman.

All of the offences are alleged to have taken place against people known to him.

Symons will appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Monday.

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