King charged with 11 sex offences

Jonathan King has been charged with 11 sex offences against youngsters going back to the 1970s.

Jonathan King has been charged with 11 sex offences against youngsters going back to the 1970s.

The 55-year-old pop producer is charged with seven counts of buggery on males aged under 16, one count of attempted buggery on a male aged under 16 and three counts of indecent assault.

The indecent assaults include one count on a male aged 17 and two counts on males aged under 16, Surrey Police have said.

King has been granted conditional bail to appear before Staines Magistrates Court on February 1.

A police spokesman says that the latest charges relate to "historic" incidents alleged to have happened in the 1970s.

In November King was charged in relation to serious sexual offences on males aged under 16.

At the time of his arrest last year he said: "I categorically deny these absurd allegations about events from 28 years ago."

He has already appeared before magistrates under his real name Kenneth George King on the initial three charges and had been bailed to reappear before Staines magistrates on February 13.

King, of Bayswater, central London, rose to fame aged 21 when he wrote and recorded his first hit, Everyone's Gone To The Moon, while a student at Cambridge University in the 1960s.

At 22 he became general manager of Decca Records before going on to found his own record company and become a DJ.

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