A POLICE officer has been charged with assaulting a young girl in Oxford 28 years ago.

James Chapman, a 43-year-old sergeant based in West Berkshire, was today charged via postal requisition with indecent assault on a girl under 14 years old.

The charge is in connection with an incident at a property in Oxford in 1991.

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Sergeant Chapman was arrested on September 17 last year and suspended from duty.

He is due to appear at Oxford Magistrates' Court on Tuesday, May 21.