Spacey back in Britain to face five sexual assault charges

KEVIN Spacey flew to Britain yesterday to face charges of sexual assault relating to three men.

The Hollywood star, 62, was met by detectives on landing in London.

They presented him with a letter detailing four counts of sexual assault and one count of causing a person to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent.

The Oscar winner will face Westminster magistrates on Thursday.

Spacey has said he is ‘voluntarily’ returning to the UK to clear his name and is ‘confident’ he will be cleared of all wrongdoing.

The charges, announced last month, allegedly took place when he was working as artistic director at the Old Vic theatre. Due to a legal technicality, he could not be formally charged until he arrived in Britain.

He is said to have twice sexually assaulted a man, now in his 40s, in 2005 in London. A second man, now in his 30s, claims he was the victim of a sex attack in 2008 in London. The fifth charge relates to the same victim.

A third man, in his 30s, says he was sexually assaulted in Gloucestershire in 2013.

Spacey was sacked from Netflix series House Of Cards after the first claim against him surfaced in 2017.