Bus driver from Portslade charged with sex offences

A Portslade man has been charged with sexual offences against four female bus passengers in Brighton while he was employed as a bus driver,
By The Newsroom
Published 25th Nov 2016, 08:43 BST
Updated 8th Jun 2018, 04:03 BST

Sussex Police has said. Mark Spalding, 28, currently a labourer, of Sheppard Way, Portslade, is due to appear at Brighton Magistrates Court tomorrow (Thursday, November 28), charged with sexual assault by touching against a woman aged 21, a woman aged 30, a girl aged 14 and a girl aged 13, all between 2014 and 2015.

He is also charged with causing or inciting each of the two girls to engage in sexual activity.

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Sussex Police said the offences are all alleged to have happened on buses in Brighton and Hove between 2014 and 2015 while Spalding was employed as a driver by Brighton and Hove Buses.

The charges follow an investigation by detectives from the Brighton Safeguarding Investigations Unit.