Overview

• Officers were called at 00:49 on July 23 to Station Road, Harrow, after reports of a sexual assault outside St John’s Church.
• Bruke Desalagne was arrested at the scene on suspicion of rape and sexual assault and formally charged later that day.
• He appeared at Willesden Magistrates’ Court on July 24 for a preliminary hearing before the case moves to a higher court.
• The alleged victim, a man in his 60s, continues to receive support from specialist officers assigned by the Metropolitan Police.
• The inquiry is being led by the Metropolitan Police Service’s specialist sexual offences unit overseeing public-space assaults.