Harvey Weinstein will be charged with two counts of indecent assault in the UK in connection with an alleged incident involving an unidentified woman in August 1996.
Clearance for criminal prosecution was obtained Wednesday from the Special Crimes Division of the British Crown Prosecutor’s Service.
“Charges were brought against 70-year-old Harvey Weinstein after the Metropolitan Police reviewed evidence gathered during the investigation,” said Rosemary Einsley, chief of the CPS Special Crimes Division.
“The Crown Prosecution Service reminds all interested parties that criminal proceedings against the accused are active and that he is entitled to a fair trial,” the statement said.
Two of the UK’s complaints stem from an incident involving a woman over 50, which allegedly took place in London from 31 July to 31 August 1996, according to a statement from the Metropolitan Police.
Weinstein pleaded not guilty in a Los Angeles court to rape and seven other sexual assault charges arising from a separate criminal case in California. And he is serving a 23-year sentence for a previous criminal conviction in New York pending trial.
A New York jury found Weinstein guilty in 2013 of raping a rookie actor in a Manhattan hotel room and forcing oral sex on a film and television production assistant in a 2006 Manhattan apartment.
Once the UK CPS has approved the indictment, the police must formally charge the suspect before the trial can begin.
In the wake of the Weinstein scandal that erupted in 2017, UK police said in October of that year that they were investigating seven allegations of sexual assault and harassment against a notorious producer and investigating separate incidents that allegedly took place between 1980 and 2015. London and beyond. the United Kingdom. Officials at the Met’s Child Violence and Sex Crimes Command, based in London, said they were making investigative allegations against victims of its self-proclaimed “Operation Kaguyak”.
The latest news comes just two weeks after the UK CPS approved four criminal charges against Kevin Space on sexual assault charges against three men. Space has since claimed that he would “voluntarily appear” in UK court to defend himself.
Source: Hollywood Reporter
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